3 St Lawrence Close, High Pittington, Durham, DH6 1RB

3 St Lawrence Close is a detached house in High Pittington, Durham, Durham (DH6 1RB). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since November 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 74 m² it's 17.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (90 m² median across 23 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £205,000 sits 203.7% above the 1996 sale of £67,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£85/sq ft) was about 36.3% below the postcode norm.