129, Boughton, Chester, CH3 5BH

129 is a five-bedroom mid-terrace house in Boughton, Chester, Chester (CH3 5BH). It has a recorded floor area of 201 m² (around 2164 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 201 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £630,000 is 14.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£254/sq ft) was about 37.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £549,950 in December 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.