12 Dorchester Drive, Hartlepool, TS24 9QY

12 Dorchester Drive is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hartlepool (TS24 9QY). It has a recorded floor area of 107 m² (around 1152 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2013) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 64). The latest certificate is from January 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1995 — that's 31 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 107 m² it's 16.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (92 m² median across 18 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £161,000 sits 185% above the 1995 sale of £56,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£49/sq ft) was about 63.7% below the postcode norm.