40 Church Road, Platt Bridge, Wigan, WN2 3TB

40 Church Road is a semi-detached house in Platt Bridge, Wigan, Wigan (WN2 3TB). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in March 2014 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 87). The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2001 — that's 25 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £168,000 sits 409.1% above the 2001 sale of £33,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 20.9% below the postcode norm. At 58 m² it's 22.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (75 m² median across 20 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs).