Alverant House, Scarisbrick New Road, Southport, PR8 6QF

Alverant House is a nine-bedroom detached house in Southport (PR8 6QF). It has a recorded floor area of 355 m² (around 3821 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2014) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in November 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and a basement.

Held since January 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 355 m² the property is well over the postcode median (56 m² across 37 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 9 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £644,000 sits 104.4% above the 2004 sale of £315,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£82/sq ft) was about 25.9% below the postcode norm.