8 Valley Close, Hartlepool, TS26 0AU

8 Valley Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Hartlepool (TS26 0AU). It has a recorded floor area of 260 m² (around 2802 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 260 m² the property is well over the postcode median (111 m² across 5 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 2004. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £404,000 is 23.5% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£117/sq ft) was about 40.4% below the postcode norm. 11 years since the last transfer (November 2015).