Blackford House, Macclesfield Road, Alderley Edge, SK9 7BH

Blackford House is a five-bedroom detached house in Alderley Edge (SK9 7BH). It has a recorded floor area of 387 m² (around 4166 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (August 2012) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £2,269,000 is 16.4% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£468/sq ft) was about 42.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 387 m² the property is well over the postcode median (201 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. On the market in April 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.