3 Talbot Street, Chipping, Preston, PR3 2QE

3 Talbot Street is a two-bedroom detached house in Chipping, Preston, Preston (PR3 2QE). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since April 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 70 m² it's 24.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (93 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On the market in February 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1995–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 16.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £224,000 is 12% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£265/sq ft) was about 20.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused.