The Old Stone House, Crosse Hall Fold, Chorley, PR6 9AD

The Old Stone House is a four-bedroom detached house in Chorley (PR6 9AD). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since January 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Very Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (179 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2013. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £653,000 is 30.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£893/sq ft) was about 808.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £500,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.