3 Brookside Cottages, Coppice Lane, Heapey, Chorley, PR6 9DB

3 Brookside Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Heapey, Chorley, Chorley (PR6 9DB). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 88 m² it's 17.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (107 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 22.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£501/sq ft) was about 112.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.