16 Astley Gardens, Seaton Sluice, Whitley Bay, NE26 4JJ

16 Astley Gardens is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Seaton Sluice, Whitley Bay, Whitley Bay (NE26 4JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 47 m² (around 503 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2009) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 62). The latest certificate is from September 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a loft.

Held since September 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 47 m² it sits well below the postcode median (85 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2002, sale prices on this property compounded at 13.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £173,000 sits 82.1% above the 2002 sale of £95,000. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.