242 Messingham Road, Scunthorpe, DN17 2QY

242 Messingham Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Scunthorpe (DN17 2QY). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1553 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2011) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The latest certificate is from September 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Held since June 1998 — that's 28 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 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £284,000 sits 327.1% above the 1998 sale of £66,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£43/sq ft) was about 65.1% below the postcode norm.