31 Bristol Avenue, Washington, NE37 1AE

31 Bristol Avenue is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Washington (NE37 1AE). It has a recorded floor area of 177 m² (around 1905 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (June 2010); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

At 177 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 18 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: an extension approved in 2006. Past consents include an extension, a porch and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £177,000 is 26.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£73/sq ft) was about 32.3% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £140,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.