1b, Gloucester Road, Southport, PR8 2AU

1b is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Southport (PR8 2AU). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2024) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (October 2021); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £415,000 is 22.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£247/sq ft) was about 35.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 127 m² it's 17% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (153 m² median across 38 EPCs). Last sale on file: £338,000 in April 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.