5 Hawthorn Terrace, Bishop Middleham, Ferryhill, DL17 9AX

5 Hawthorn Terrace is a mid-terrace house in Bishop Middleham, Ferryhill, Ferryhill (DL17 9AX). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1067 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2010) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 99 m² it's 17.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (84 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £127,000 is 24.5% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£96/sq ft) was about 25.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.