43 St James Crescent, Bickershaw, Wigan, WN2 4AJ

43 St James Crescent is a semi-detached house in Bickershaw, Wigan, Wigan (WN2 4AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2013) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 1996 — that's 30 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. At 83 m² it's 23% larger than the typical home in the postcode (68 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £154,000 sits 387.3% above the 1996 sale of £31,600. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 56.8% below the postcode norm.