42 The Grove, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 1NH

42 The Grove is a two-bedroom detached house in Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE3 1NH). It has a recorded floor area of 206 m² (around 2217 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.

At 206 m² the property is well over the postcode median (59 m² across 47 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. One planning record on file: partial demolition approved in 2024. Past consents include partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£654/sq ft) was about 255.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,450,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.