Chaucer Lodge, Flat 2, Longfellow Road, Worthing, BN11 4NU

Chaucer Lodge is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Worthing (BN11 4NU). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. Tenure is freehold. At 60 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 3 units on EPC record in Chaucer Lodge, where floor areas span 57–105 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to D, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (62 versus a worst of 47). Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in April 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while lighting dropped from Very Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73).

At 60 m² it sits well below the postcode median (97 m² across 29 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £375,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£581/sq ft) was about 219.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused.