3 Elton Close, North Wingfield, Chesterfield, S42 5HQ

3 Elton Close is a five-bedroom detached house in North Wingfield, Chesterfield, Chesterfield (S42 5HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2025) returns a high B (score 88), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in January 2011 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average.

Held since November 1997 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (107 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £399,000 sits 435.6% above the 1997 sale of £74,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£44/sq ft) was about 74.2% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2003. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.