3 High Carr Close, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1 5JP

3 High Carr Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Framwellgate Moor, Durham, Durham (DH1 5JP). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The property has an EV charger on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The latest certificate (March 2019) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. Earlier certificates rated it B (October 2016); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83).

At 86 m² it sits well below the postcode median (132 m² across 49 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2018–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 22.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£508/sq ft) was about 104.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £470,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.