7 Queens Hotel Apartments, Front Street, Pontefract, WF8 4DB

7 Queens Hotel Apartments is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Pontefract (WF8 4DB). It has a recorded floor area of 39 m² (around 420 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (March 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 39 m² it sits well below the postcode median (61 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2012–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at -17.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £116,000 sits 110.9% above the 2015 sale of £55,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£131/sq ft) was about 27.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in October 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.