5 Carrick Road, Chester, CH4 8AN

5 Carrick Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Chester (CH4 8AN). It has a recorded floor area of 138 m² (around 1484 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory and attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Held since August 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 138 m² it's 16% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (164 m² median across 10 EPCs). 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension and solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £656,000 is 26.2% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£350/sq ft) was about 20.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.