2 Archery Close, Countesthorpe, Leicester, LE8 5QB

2 Archery Close is a semi-detached house in Countesthorpe, Leicester, Leicester (LE8 5QB). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 86 m² it's 20.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (108 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £249,000 sits 315% above the 1998 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£65/sq ft) was about 73.6% below the postcode norm.