Grace Cottage, Sibbersfield Lane, Churton, Chester, CH3 6LQ

Grace Cottage is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Churton, Chester, Chester (CH3 6LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 171 m² (around 1841 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in February 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Main heating runs on oil.

At 171 m² it sits well below the postcode median (330 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 83% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £530,000 in March 2022. 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: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £587,000 is 10.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£288/sq ft) was about 35.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.