71b, Higher Bents Lane, Bredbury, Stockport, SK6 2NB

71b is a detached house in Bredbury, Stockport, Stockport (SK6 2NB). It has a recorded floor area of 163 m² (around 1755 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since October 2014. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump.

At 163 m² the property is well over the postcode median (74 m² across 12 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £682,000 is 31.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£296/sq ft) was about 91.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £520,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.