7 Houghton Road North, Houghton, Carlisle, CA3 0NL

7 Houghton Road North is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Houghton, Carlisle, Carlisle (CA3 0NL). It has a recorded floor area of 272 m² (around 2928 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2024) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since February 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 272 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £449,000 sits 274.2% above the 1998 sale of £120,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£41/sq ft) was about 74.6% below the postcode norm.