42 Oakfield Road, Gateshead, NE11 0AB

42 Oakfield Road is a semi-detached house in Gateshead (NE11 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in March 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £183,000 sits 281.3% above the 1998 sale of £48,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£61/sq ft) was about 60.1% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 73 m² it's 15.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (87 m² median across 10 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs).