10 Melrose Avenue, Darlington, DL3 0AB

10 Melrose Avenue is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Darlington (DL3 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2016) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 3-band jump.

Held since September 2000 — that's 26 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 95 m² it's 18.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (80 m² median across 5 EPCs). 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 181.7% above the 2000 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 65.9% below the postcode norm.