The Laund, Whittingham Lane, Grimsargh, Preston, PR2 5LH

The Laund is an eight-bedroom detached house in Grimsargh, Preston, Preston (PR2 5LH). It has a recorded floor area of 505 m² (around 5436 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 68), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 505 m² the property is well over the postcode median (183 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, partial demolition and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,108,000 is 10.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£184/sq ft) was about 17% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,000,000 in October 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.