Wrens Acre, Chestnut Close, Culgaith, Penrith, CA10 1QX

Wrens Acre is a two-bedroom detached house in Culgaith, Penrith, Penrith (CA10 1QX). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 800 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 46). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Held since April 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 74 m² it's 22.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (96 m² median across 17 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2001–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 29.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £265,000 is 48% above the 2004 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£224/sq ft) was about 26.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.