19 The Ashes, Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, TS25 2QY

19 The Ashes is a detached house in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, Hartlepool (TS25 2QY). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2013) returns a high B (score 86), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in March 2013 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. The latest certificate is from May 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 30 years, with the last transfer in October 1996. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £275,000 sits 250.3% above the 1996 sale of £78,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£49/sq ft) was about 55.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 148 m² it's 17.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (126 m² median across 17 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 88% of similar EPCs).