228 Alder Street, Huddersfield, HD2 1AX

228 Alder Street is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Huddersfield (HD2 1AX). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (April 2010); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.

Held since August 1999 — that's 27 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 105 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 58 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £135,000 sits 462.5% above the 1999 sale of £24,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£21/sq ft) was about 77.3% below the postcode norm.