3 School Street, Witton Le Wear, Bishop Auckland, DL14 0AS

3 School Street is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Witton Le Wear, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland (DL14 0AS). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 722 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 26). Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since August 1998, a hold of 28 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 67 m² it sits well below the postcode median (158 m² across 14 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. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £144,000 sits 140.2% above the 1998 sale of £59,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£83/sq ft) was about 46.1% below the postcode norm.