The Willows is a five-bedroom detached house in Goosnargh, Preston, Preston (PR3 2BN). It has a recorded floor area of 302 m² (around 3251 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007 onwards and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2017) shows a C (score 78), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82). The home occupies a corner plot.
At 302 m² the property is well over the postcode median (115 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2008–2021, sale prices here grew 0% per year, broadly in step with Preston's 0% HPI growth. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£175/sq ft) was about 17.5% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £570,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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The Willows's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
The Willows has no planning applications on record.
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The Willows's sale-price growth has lagged the wider UK trajectory across its history on file.
£583,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£570,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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On habitable rooms, The Willows stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£1,887
Street avg £2,433
Floor Area
302 m²
Street avg 150 m²
Habitable Rooms
11 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
0.0 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
10 May 2021Most recent
£570,000
1 July 2008
£570,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PR3 2BN: £410,000 (2024–2020).
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Sold Oct 2020

Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.9 t/year
Street avg 5.8 t/year
PR3 2AB
Sports Pavilion — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Goosnargh Oliverson's Church of England Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.9dB