28 Frenchwood Street, Preston, PR1 3ST

28 Frenchwood Street is a semi-detached house in Preston (PR1 3ST). It has a recorded floor area of 143 m² (around 1539 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (September 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced Preston HPI: 6.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£104/sq ft) was about 19.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 143 m² the property is well over the postcode median (79 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sale on file: £160,000 in June 2022. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.