3 Castlefields, Rothwell, Leeds, LS26 0GN

3 Castlefields is a four-bedroom detached house in Rothwell, Leeds, Leeds (LS26 0GN). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 1997 — that's 29 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 70 m² it's 23.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (91 m² median across 47 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £297,000 sits 241.6% above the 1997 sale of £86,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£115/sq ft) was about 34.1% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.