3 Brookside Cottages, Macclesfield Road, Eaton, Congleton, CW12 2NP

3 Brookside Cottages is a mid-terrace house in Eaton, Congleton, Congleton (CW12 2NP). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (February 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

Today's modelled estimate of £520,000 is 24.6% below the 2007 sale of £690,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£986/sq ft) was about 513.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It hasn't traded since May 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 65 m² it's 29.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (92 m² median across 6 EPCs).