23 High Street, Witton Le Wear, Bishop Auckland, DL14 0AY

23 High Street is an end-of-terrace house in Witton Le Wear, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland (DL14 0AY). It has a recorded floor area of 209 m² (around 2250 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2015) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 209 m² the property is well over the postcode median (101 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £445,000 sits 161.8% above the 1997 sale of £170,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£76/sq ft) was about 39.5% below the postcode norm.