Greystones, Elwick Road, Hartlepool, TS26 0DL

Greystones is a detached house in Hartlepool (TS26 0DL). It has a recorded floor area of 642 m² (around 6910 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 44), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on house coal.

At 642 m² the property is well over the postcode median (122 m² across 6 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. 8 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£78/sq ft) was about 57.7% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £540,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.