Dairy Cottage, Hough Clough Lane, Chipping, Preston, PR3 2NT

Dairy Cottage is a detached house in Chipping, Preston, Preston (PR3 2NT). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 919 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2008) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 70). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £382,000 sits 238.1% above the 1997 sale of £113,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£123/sq ft) was about 52.9% below the postcode norm. At 85 m² it sits well below the postcode median (181 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused.