6 St Margarets Close, Middleton St George, Darlington, DL2 1AH

6 St Margarets Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Middleton St. George, Darlington, Darlington (DL2 1AH). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since August 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump.

At 73 m² it sits well below the postcode median (112 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £199,000 is 35.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£187/sq ft) was about 15.2% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £147,000 in December 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.