1 Bates Road, Brighton, BN1 6PF

1 Bates Road is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Brighton (BN1 6PF). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1227 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a loft.

3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused, 1 pending. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An active application for an extension is awaiting a decision. At 114 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 50 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£542/sq ft) was about 90.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2022 for £665,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.