5a, Cambridge Road, Worthing, BN11 1XD

5a is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Worthing (BN11 1XD). It has a recorded floor area of 76 m² (around 818 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a G (score 7), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since January 2014. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 76 m² this is the 12th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 17–220 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (7 versus a best of 77). Period features are noted in the property record.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£315/sq ft) was about 50.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £257,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.