Meadow Bank, South Street, Tarring, Worthing, BN14 7ND

Meadow Bank is a detached house in Tarring, Worthing, Worthing (BN14 7ND). It has a recorded floor area of 243 m² (around 2616 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Very Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump.

At 243 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£373/sq ft) was about 35.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Last sale on file: £975,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.