55 Chorley Road, Walton Le Dale, Preston, PR5 4JN

55 Chorley Road is an end-of-terrace house in Walton-Le-Dale, Preston, Preston (PR5 4JN). It has a recorded floor area of 134 m² (around 1442 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows an F (score 29), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in January 2017 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump.

Held since October 1997 — that's 29 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 134 m² the property is well over the postcode median (44 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 £186,000 sits 197.6% above the 1997 sale of £62,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£43/sq ft) was about 51.5% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2014.