1 Bleak Cottages, DL13 5PP
1 Bleak Cottages is a freehold semi-detached house on Bleak Cottages in DL13. It last sold for £78,000 in 2024 — its 3rd recorded sale, down 1% on its first recorded sale of £79,000 in 2005.
What this home is
The physical record — from its EPC assessments, HM Land Registry and the VOA.
EPC data © Crown copyright; bedrooms are the register's estimate, not a survey. Tenure from HM Land Registry.
What is it worth now?
An indicative projection from its own sale record — the report's valuation prices it against individual comparable sales.
Indicatively £72,000–£84,000 today, projected from its 2024 sale.
From the 2024 sale, the indicative range widens as time passes — the cone is that growing uncertainty, not a forecast.
Across County Durham, the official average home value is £138,767 — +5% in a year, +25% over five.
Covers the whole County Durham area, not this postcode.
A point estimate with likely and wide ranges, built from individual comparable sales nearby — each listed with address, date, size and adjusted price.
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Indicative range projected from HM Land Registry sold prices; not a formal valuation, survey or appraisal.
Everything on 1 Bleak Cottages, unlocked
The valuation with its comparables, every application and document trail, tenure & title, the ten score workings — the full dossier for this one address.
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Sale history
Every transaction HM Land Registry records for 1 Bleak Cottages, newest first.
3 recorded sales since 2005, down 1% from first to latest.
This home's recorded sales joined up, with the change between each — against DL13's yearly median.
What a home of this era typically means
- Usually solid brick walls, so expect the same cold-bridging and insulation challenges as Victorian stock.
- Often more generous rooms, hallways and ceiling heights — comfortable but harder to heat.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; sales before 1995 are not in the public dataset.
Energy & running costs
What 1 Bleak Cottages's Energy Performance Certificates say about efficiency, cost and construction.
Every fabric element as the assessor described it — walls, roof, floor, windows, hot water and heating construction with its efficiency rating — plus glazing detail and itemised running costs.
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EPC data © Crown copyright, from the domestic EPC register. Certificates describe the home as assessed on their date.
The practical file
The running costs and everyday infrastructure a viewing can't show you.
Council tax band A (≈£1,748/yr) · gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.
The full amenity list by category with names and distances — supermarkets to GPs to gyms — plus parks with sizes and every connectivity measure in full.
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VOA council-tax band with the authority's current rates; Ofcom broadband coverage; amenities from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); EV charging from the National Chargepoint Registry; hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency.
The neighbourhood
Who lives here and how the area ranks — the County Durham 064G neighbourhood, from the Census and the Indices of Deprivation.
IMD decile 4/10 — more deprived than most of England; household income about 25% below the national average; shared/rented housing low.
In plain terms: crime and income score well, but a weaker living environment.
25% below the national average.
The dark tick on each bar marks the England & Wales average.
ONS Census 2021 and the English Indices of Deprivation, at neighbourhood (LSOA/MSOA) level — the immediate pocket, not the whole postcode district.
The street and the area
Where 1 Bleak Cottages sits in its local market.
1 Bleak Cottages: quick answers
From HM Land Registry, EPC, VOA, Police.uk, DfE and Environment Agency records.
1 Bleak Cottages last sold for £78,000 on 12 Nov 2024, according to HM Land Registry.
HM Land Registry records 3 sales for 1 Bleak Cottages between 2005 and 2024. Sales before 1995 are not in the public dataset.
Its most recent Energy Performance Certificate records 51 m² of floor area.
1 Bleak Cottages is in council tax band A, costing about £1,748 a year (Durham UA).
Its most recent EPC rates it E (score 40). Its recommended improvements would take it to B.
Carrying its 2024 sale price forward with its own compounded sale-price growth of -0.1% a year across 3 sales suggests roughly £72,000–£84,000 as of 2026. This is indicative only — the full report values it against individual comparable sales.
Top available download speed is around 0 Mbps. Gigabit-capable broadband reaches 100% of premises in this postcode. (Source: Ofcom)
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Contains public-sector data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable. Amenity data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Sales before 1995 are not in the public dataset. Figures describe recorded data and are not a survey or valuation of this home; the indicative range is a projection, not an appraisal. marks detail included in the £5 report.