Barn Cottage, Barn Close, Wick, Littlehampton, BN17 6JU
About Barn Cottage
Barn Cottage is a detached house in Wick, Littlehampton, Littlehampton (BN17 6JU). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2017) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump.
At 84 m² it sits well below the postcode median (122 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £441,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£488/sq ft) was about 242.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.
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Energy performance
Barn Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
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Planning history
Barn Cottage has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
10applications of note in the surrounding area
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on Barn Cottage was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£458,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.4% per year over 23 years.
£441,000
Growth on file: 5.4% per year over 23 years.
Sales timeline
3 August 2022Most recent
£441,000
+27.8%over 3 years13 May 2019
£345,000
+50.7%over 12 years7 February 2007
£229,000
-8.4%over 3 years21 November 2003
£249,950
+93.0%over 4 years16 May 1999
£129,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in BN17 6JU: £275,000 (2022–1996).
Nearby sales in BN17 6JU
7 Barn Close, Wick, Littlehampton, BN17 6JU
Sold May 2022
£410,0005 Barn Close, Wick, Littlehampton, BN17 6JU
Sold Oct 2018
£420,0003 Barn Close, Wick, Littlehampton, BN17 6JU
Sold Oct 2017
£275,0001 Barn Close, Wick, Littlehampton, BN17 6JU
Sold Jan 2004
£275,0009 Barn Close, Wick, Littlehampton, BN17 6JU
Sold May 1996
£95,000
Versus other Barn Close homes
Price per m² for Barn Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,250
Street avg £2,109
Floor Area
84 m²
Street avg 122 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.2 t/year
Street avg 1.6 t/year
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Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.6 km
Cemetery — bus stop.
Closest school
0.7 km
Lyminster Primary School. 8 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
51.8dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
41.9dB