1 Brooklands is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Longridge, Preston, Preston (PR3 2AB). It has a recorded floor area of 188 m² (around 2024 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72).
At 188 m² the property is well over the postcode median (144 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £439,000 is 33% above the 2021 sale price. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £330,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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1 Brooklands's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£439,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£330,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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What we flagged
On price per m², 1 Brooklands runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£1,755
Street avg £2,180
Floor Area
188 m²
Street avg 151 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Single storey side extension and alterations to rear outrigger, and detached outbuilding following demolition of existing outbuilding
19 February 2021Most recent
£330,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PR3 2AB: £328,000 (2024–2021).
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CO₂ Emissions
7.7 t/year
Street avg 5.8 t/year
PR3 2TB
ALDI — bus stop.
Closest school
0.5 km
Longridge St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Primary School. 7 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.0dB