53 Chiltern Road, Birkenhead, CH42 6SQ

53 Chiltern Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Birkenhead (CH42 6SQ). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (January 2013) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from January 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1999 — that's 26 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 £163,000 sits 216.5% above the 1999 sale of £51,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 59.8% below the postcode norm.