8 River Road, Littlehampton, BN17 5BN

8 River Road is a mid-terrace house in Littlehampton (BN17 5BN). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2011. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump.

At 120 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2012–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £368,000 is 29.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£221/sq ft) was about 22.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £285,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.