21 Carleton Road, Pontefract, WF8 3NA

21 Carleton Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Pontefract (WF8 3NA). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. At 81 m² this is the 6th smallest of 16 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 47–216 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to A, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (46 versus a best of 95). The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump.

At 81 m² it's 27.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (112 m² median across 15 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £138,000 is 20% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£132/sq ft) was about 24.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2021 for £115,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.