24a, Pennine Road, Chorley, PR6 0AW

24a is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Chorley (PR6 0AW). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 42 m² this is the 9th smallest of 63 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 36–131 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (68 m² across 62 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £110,000 sits 57.1% above the 2021 sale of £70,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£155/sq ft) was about 53.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2021 at £70,000. 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.