Sumners Cottage, Fulwood Row, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 5RU

Sumners Cottage is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Fulwood, Preston, Preston (PR2 5RU). It has a recorded floor area of 231 m² (around 2486 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82). The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since December 2007, a hold of 18 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 231 m² the property is well over the postcode median (161 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 2000–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 18.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £416,000 is 29.2% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£130/sq ft) was about 23.6% below the postcode norm.