1 Brooksdale Close, Kettering, NN16 9BJ

1 Brooksdale Close is a detached house in Kettering (NN16 9BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2014) returns a high B (score 88), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 94). The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1997 — that's 29 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. Today's modelled estimate of £252,000 sits 375.5% above the 1997 sale of £53,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£67/sq ft) was about 60.2% below the postcode norm. At 74 m² it's 23.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (97 m² median across 28 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 89% of similar EPCs).