1 Central Drive, Penwortham, Preston, PR1 0NL

1 Central Drive is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Penwortham, Preston, Preston (PR1 0NL). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£265/sq ft) was about 47.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £280,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.