8 Manor House Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 2LU

8 Manor House Road is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE2 2LU). It has a recorded floor area of 185 m² (around 1991 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2018) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in November 2008 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63).

Held since May 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 185 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 24 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. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £486,000 sits 315.4% above the 1997 sale of £117,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 45.6% below the postcode norm.