5 Granville Terrace, Binchester, Bishop Auckland, DL14 8AT

5 Granville Terrace is a mid-terrace house in Binchester, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland (DL14 8AT). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on house coal. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 96 m² the property is well over the postcode median (62 m² across 46 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £125,000 sits 204.9% above the 2003 sale of £41,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£40/sq ft) was about 54.1% below the postcode norm.