297 Chapel Lane, New Longton, Preston, PR4 4AB

297 Chapel Lane is a five-bedroom detached house in New Longton, Preston, Preston (PR4 4AB). It has a recorded floor area of 234 m² (around 2519 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. Tenure is freehold. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot and a loft. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75).

At 234 m² the property is well over the postcode median (127 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2012. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £730,000 is 12.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£258/sq ft) was about 25.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.