North Cottage, Ovingdean Road, Ovingdean, Brighton, BN2 7BB

North Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ovingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7BB). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused, 1 pending. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An active application for partial demolition is awaiting a decision. At 85 m² it's 26.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (116 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £557,000 is 12.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£541/sq ft) was about 131.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £495,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.