23 Lowther Drive, Swillington, Leeds, LS26 8QG

23 Lowther Drive is a three-bedroom detached house in Swillington, Leeds, Leeds (LS26 8QG). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2013) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (January 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from September 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 58 m² it's 24.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (77 m² median across 21 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £283,000 is 38% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£328/sq ft) was about 85.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold January 2021 for £205,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.