12 High Croft, Bentham, Lancaster, LA2 7FE

12 High Croft is a five-bedroom detached house in Bentham, Lancaster, Lancaster (LA2 7FE). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2018) shows a C (score 75), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82). Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 166 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 9 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. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £432,000 is 30.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£185/sq ft) was about 25.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £330,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.