16 Douglas Close, Worthing, BN11 5LF

16 Douglas Close is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Worthing (BN11 5LF). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2015) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 126 m² the property is well over the postcode median (52 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£417/sq ft) was about 90.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2022 for £565,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.