5 Chatham Close, Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay, NE25 0PB

5 Chatham Close is a semi-detached house in Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay, Whitley Bay (NE25 0PB). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2015) returns a high B (score 85), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 93). The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1996 — that's 30 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 121 m² the property is well over the postcode median (79 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £220,000 sits 303.7% above the 1996 sale of £54,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£42/sq ft) was about 73.6% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.