1 Hartside Cottages, Trouts Lane, Durham, DH1 5RQ

1 Hartside Cottages is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Durham (DH1 5RQ). It has a recorded floor area of 181 m² (around 1948 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2016) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 181 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £333,000 is 33.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£128/sq ft) was about 44.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2022 for £250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.