1 Alderson Square, Harrogate, HG2 8AX

1 Alderson Square is a six-bedroom semi-detached house in Harrogate (HG2 8AX). It has a recorded floor area of 287 m² (around 3089 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and main heating went from Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 287 m² the property is well over the postcode median (118 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2010–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£369/sq ft) was about 68.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,140,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.