Estimated value today£725klast sold £737,000, 2025 · likely £658k–£793k
Energy ratingC2024 certificate, could be B
Energy bills, a year£1,489about £124 a month at 2026 prices
Price per m²£4,029/m²neighbourhood typical £2,696/m²
See The Laurels, 36b, Pikemere Road from the street and the air
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What would improve this home
Its 2024 energy certificate recommends 2 measures, which together could take it from C to B. All of them together typically cost £9k–£14k.
Solar water heatingtypically £4k–£6k
Solar panels (electricity)typically £5k–£8k
In the order the certificate lists them (usually cheapest and most effective first). Costs are the median of the ranges quoted on certificates across England and Wales, not quotes for this home. Grants may help: check the government's home energy grants service.
What's it worth with your changes?
Sale records can't see extensions, conversions or condition. Tell us what's changed since 2025 and we'll adjust the estimate, with a range that shows how sure we can be.
Low£674k
Likely£725k
High£776k
Starting value (our estimate)£725k
Range includes ±7% for the estimate itself. Effects are typical ranges, not this home's: a surveyor or local agent who sees it will do better. Work done before 2025 is already in the price. Evidence: of 573,662 homes we saw extended on their energy certificates (median +30 m²), the 123,110 that sold before and after grew a median 10.9% more than their neighbourhood: about a third of the extra space at the home's average price per m².
The home
Type
Detached
Tenure
Freehold
Floor area
180 m² (1,938 sq ft), 8 habitable rooms
Built
2007-2011
Main heating fuel
gas
Sales since 1995
£530k (2012) → £510k (2019) → £737k (2025)
The estimate moves the last sale in line with the neighbourhood's like-for-like price index. It can't see extensions, condition or the market for this particular home: it is not a valuation.
A £1,637B £1,909C £2,182D £2,455E £3,000F £3,546G £4,091H £4,910
From the 2024 energy certificate, rescaled to 2026 gas and electricity prices (approximate national averages). Appliances, cooking and standing charges are not included; actual bills depend on how you live.
Getting about
Nearest station
Alsager, 0.4 km (busiest route: Crewe)
Central London
230 km as the crow flies
Large employment centre
36 min by public transport · 19 by car
Town centre
27 min by public transport or walking
Commuting by train/Tube
1% of local workers · 32% mostly work from home
Airport
Manchester, 29 km
Everyday life
Weekly shop
food store about 7 min without a car
GP surgery
about 12 min
A&E
Royal Stoke University Hospital, 12 km (CQC: Requires improvement)
Top-rated primaries
St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School (0.7 km), Rode Heath Primary School (2 km)
Top-rated secondaries
none within 6 km
Eating out
2 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood
School distances are straight lines; admissions depend on each school's catchment and criteria.
£1,610 a month for a 4+-bedroom home in Cheshire East (2026-08)
Gross yield
2.7% on the estimated value
Letting rules
rated C: meets the current E minimum
Council-wide average rents (ONS Price Index of Private Rents); bedrooms estimated from the certificate's habitable rooms. Before costs, voids, tax and mortgage interest.
Planning and development
Conservation area
not in one (postcode check)
Article 4 direction
none recorded
Brownfield sites in the neighbourhood
1 site, about 212 homes planned
This home extended?
no extension seen on its energy certificates
Extensions on the street
2 other homes on Pikemere Road (within 250 m) extended, most recently 2022
Company landlords
0.2% of homes in the neighbourhood are owned by companies (HM Land Registry, Oct 2026)
New homes completed 2021–2025
201 in the neighbourhood
Questions to raise
Generated from the facts above, as prompts for your solicitor, surveyor or the agent. Not legal advice.
Sewage spills nearbyStorm overflows within 2 km spilled for about 750 hours in 2025 (Environment Agency). Worth knowing if you plan to swim, paddle or walk the dog along the local river or coast.
Development planned nearbyThe council's brownfield register lists 1 site of 50+ homes in this neighbourhood (largest: Twyfords and Cardway, Alsager, 212 homes). Look up planning applications for anything near you.
For every purchaseCommission a survey suited to the home's age and condition, check the title plan matches what you see on the ground (boundaries, access, parking), and ask about disputes with neighbours, rights of way and shared drives.