5 Thornhill Crescent, Sunderland, SR2 7AD

5 Thornhill Crescent is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Sunderland (SR2 7AD). It has a recorded floor area of 310 m² (around 3337 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2025) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump.

Held since July 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 310 m² the property is well over the postcode median (56 m² across 26 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. Across 2001–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 27.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£87/sq ft) was about 17.3% below the postcode norm.