Crown Apartments, Flat 17, Dryland Street, Kettering, NN16 0BE

Crown Apartments is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kettering (NN16 0BE). It has a recorded floor area of 147 m² (around 1582 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. At 147 m² this is the 16th smallest of 17 units on EPC record in Crown Apartments, where floor areas span 22–152 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (51 versus a best of 81). The latest certificate (January 2022) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 147 m² the property is well over the postcode median (75 m² across 16 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. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£118/sq ft) was about 19.6% below the postcode norm. Sold October 2022 for £187,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.