The Arches, Main Street, Brough, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4AX

The Arches is a mid-terrace house in Brough, Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Stephen (CA17 4AX). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2019) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since October 2008. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 113 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £207,000 sits 80% above the 2021 sale of £115,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£95/sq ft) was about 38.1% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: July 2021 at £115,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: change of use to residential approved in 2007. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.