12 Porch Cottages, White Coppice, Heapey, Chorley, PR6 9DE

12 Porch Cottages is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Heapey, Chorley, Chorley (PR6 9DE). It has a recorded floor area of 173 m² (around 1862 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 173 m² it's 15.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (150 m² median across 3 EPCs). Across 2016–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £825,000 is 16.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£381/sq ft) was about 58.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £710,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.