Cross Dykes, Dyke Road Place, Brighton, BN1 5LD

Cross Dykes is a three-bedroom detached house in Brighton (BN1 5LD). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 67). Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 172 m² it's 26.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (233 m² median across 4 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £1,209,000 is 15.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£567/sq ft) was about 22.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,050,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.