14 Ainspool Lane, Churchtown, Preston, PR3 0HU

14 Ainspool Lane is a four-bedroom detached house in Churchtown, Preston, Preston (PR3 0HU). It has a recorded floor area of 174 m² (around 1873 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 174 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2004. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£259/sq ft) was about 51.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2022 for £485,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.