Flat E, 7 Western Road, Littlehampton, BN17 5NP

Flat E is an end-of-terrace house in Littlehampton (BN17 5NP). It has a recorded floor area of 26 m² (around 280 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 9 certificates since August 2015. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 26 m² it sits well below the postcode median (71 m² across 45 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 2016–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£393/sq ft) was about 136.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £109,950. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.