29 Brooklands Court, Rochdale, OL11 4EJ

29 Brooklands Court is a four-bedroom detached house in Rochdale (OL11 4EJ). It has a recorded floor area of 125 m² (around 1345 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2023) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (March 2022); 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 125 m² it's 24.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (166 m² median across 8 EPCs). 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 2022. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £483,000 is 15% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£312/sq ft) was about 165% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £420,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.