Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
53 Curlew Grove is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Birchwood, Warrington, Warrington (WA3 6NX). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.
At 83 m² it's 16.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (72 m² median across 50 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £213,000 is 12.7% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£212/sq ft) was about 77.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £189,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
53 Curlew Grove sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 16 Aug 2026
Certificate validity
Expired on 16 August 2026
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£213,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£189,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
7 July 2022Most recent
£189,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in WA3 6NX: £132,500 (2025–2020).
4 Curlew Grove, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6NX
Sold Jan 2025
14 Curlew Grove, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6NX
Sold Sept 2023
7 Curlew Grove, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6NX
Sold Jan 2021
10 Curlew Grove, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6NX
Sold Dec 2020
5 Curlew Grove, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6NX
Sold Mar 2019
53 Curlew Grove is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£2,277
Street avg £1,567
Floor Area
83 m²
Street avg 72 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.3 t/year
Street avg 2.7 t/year
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Crime
112/mo
Falling year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Whinchat Drive — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Birchwood CofE Primary School. 12 schools nearby.
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