Gorstella, The Gorstella, Welsh Road, Dodleston, Chester, CH4 9LN

Gorstella is a detached house in Dodleston, Chester, Chester (CH4 9LN). It has a recorded floor area of 409 m² (around 4402 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in December 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 409 m² the property is well over the postcode median (200 m² across 9 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. Across 2017–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£290/sq ft) was about 72.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,275,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.