15 Briar Walk, Darlington, DL3 8QU

15 Briar Walk is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Darlington (DL3 8QU). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 66). The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1995 — that's 31 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 113 m² it's 21% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (143 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £295,000 sits 278.2% above the 1995 sale of £78,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£64/sq ft) was about 61.3% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.