The Polishers, Gill Lane, Longton, Preston, PR4 4SR

The Polishers is a four-bedroom detached house in Longton, Preston, Preston (PR4 4SR). It has a recorded floor area of 219 m² (around 2357 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 67). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

Held since October 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. At 219 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 m² across 10 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 £713,000 sits 210% above the 1998 sale of £230,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£98/sq ft) was about 41.9% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.