1 The Meadows, Grange Park, Northampton, NN4 5BU

1 The Meadows is a four-bedroom detached house in Grange Park, Northampton, Northampton (NN4 5BU). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

Held since January 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Today's modelled estimate of £345,000 sits 125.5% above the 2002 sale of £152,995. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£279/sq ft) was about 52.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 51 m² it sits well below the postcode median (118 m² across 38 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 84% of similar EPCs).