Cleasby Cottage, The Green, Cleasby, Darlington, DL2 2QZ

Cleasby Cottage is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Cleasby, Darlington, Darlington (DL2 2QZ). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Period features are noted in the property record.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in January 1997. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 64 m² it sits well below the postcode median (148 m² across 15 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 £154,000 sits 294.9% above the 1997 sale of £39,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£57/sq ft) was about 62.3% below the postcode norm.