9 Beechway, Penwortham, Preston, PR1 0XS

9 Beechway is a semi-detached house in Penwortham, Preston, Preston (PR1 0XS). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump.

Held since December 1997 — 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. At 105 m² the property is well over the postcode median (77 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £245,000 sits 512.5% above the 1997 sale of £40,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 79.6% below the postcode norm.