1 Grove Road, Worthing, BN14 9DQ

1 Grove Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Worthing (BN14 9DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 238 m² (around 2562 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Other recorded features include a conservatory. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 238 m² the property is well over the postcode median (150 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£332/sq ft) was about 155.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £850,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.