73 Town Road, Croston, Leyland, PR26 9RA

73 Town Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Croston, Leyland, Leyland (PR26 9RA). It has a recorded floor area of 225 m² (around 2422 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. The latest certificate (May 2018) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump.

At 225 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). 26 planning records sit against the property, 12 approved, 12 refused. Past consents include new windows, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£289/sq ft) was about 83.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2021 for £700,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.