3 Barnstaple Way, Cottam, Preston, PR4 0LY

3 Barnstaple Way is a detached house in Cottam, Preston, Preston (PR4 0LY). It has a recorded floor area of 109 m² (around 1173 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1998 — that's 28 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. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £323,000 sits 187.1% above the 1998 sale of £112,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£96/sq ft) was about 38.1% below the postcode norm.