3 The Orchard, Croston, Leyland, PR26 9HS

3 The Orchard is a two-bedroom detached house in Croston, Leyland, Leyland (PR26 9HS). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 74 m² the property is well over the postcode median (53 m² across 32 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£361/sq ft) was about 147.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2022 for £287,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.