22 Auckland View, High Etherley, Bishop Auckland, DL14 0JQ

22 Auckland View is a two-bedroom detached house in High Etherley, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland (DL14 0JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2011); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and lighting dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 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 59 m² it sits well below the postcode median (91 m² across 21 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. Today's modelled estimate of £169,000 sits 199.1% above the 1997 sale of £56,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£89/sq ft) was about 51.5% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.