The Bungalow, Roseacre Drive, Elswick, Preston, PR4 3YL

The Bungalow is a four-bedroom detached house in Elswick, Preston, Preston (PR4 3YL). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2019) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £419,000 is 14% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£198/sq ft) was about 156.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £367,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.