12 Knighton Road, Leicester, LE2 3HH

12 Knighton Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Leicester (LE2 3HH). It has a recorded floor area of 284 m² (around 3057 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since June 2013. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory and a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 284 m² the property is well over the postcode median (39 m² across 25 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£286/sq ft) was about 24.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £875,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.