Ground Floor Flat, 54 Ashdown Road, Worthing, BN11 1DE

Ground Floor Flat is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Worthing (BN11 1DE). It has a recorded floor area of 47 m² (around 506 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (January 2024) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2014. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since December 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £162,000 sits 912.5% above the 1995 sale of £16,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£32/sq ft) was about 82.4% below the postcode norm. At 47 m² it sits well below the postcode median (104 m² across 26 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs).