Lunendales Cottage, High Street, Elswick, Preston, PR4 3ZB

Lunendales Cottage is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Elswick, Preston, Preston (PR4 3ZB). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1076 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. Earlier certificates rated it C (June 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). Other recorded features include a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 100 m² it sits well below the postcode median (176 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £220,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £261,000 is 18.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£204/sq ft) was about 17.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.