12 Church Terrace, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 3NX

12 Church Terrace is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Milnrow, Rochdale, Rochdale (OL16 3NX). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2016) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in August 2015 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 3-band jump.

Held since April 1998 — that's 28 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 £114,000 sits 516.2% above the 1998 sale of £18,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£43/sq ft) was about 63.7% below the postcode norm. At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (59 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.