34 Park Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5AG

34 Park Parade is a four-bedroom detached house in Harrogate (HG1 5AG). It has a recorded floor area of 237 m² (around 2551 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 237 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£343/sq ft) was about 45.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £875,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.