3 Elm Street, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, HD8 9BH

3 Elm Street is a four-bedroom detached house in Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, Huddersfield (HD8 9BH). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2015) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 96 m² the property is well over the postcode median (54 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£368/sq ft) was about 88.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. Sold August 2022 for £380,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.