1 Park Cottages, Kinseys Lane, Ince, Chester, CH2 4NS

1 Park Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ince, Chester, Chester (CH2 4NS). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 42). Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a loft. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since July 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. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £229,000 sits 213.9% above the 1998 sale of £72,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£69/sq ft) was about 49% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.