Gateforth Grange, West Lane, Burn, Selby, YO8 8LR

Gateforth Grange is a detached house in Burn, Selby, Selby (YO8 8LR). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since February 2017. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

Across 2017–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £378,000 is 50.3% below the 2021 sale of £760,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£411/sq ft) was about 97.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £760,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.