St Margarets Cottage, The Green, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 7HA

St Margarets Cottage is a semi-detached house in Rottingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7HA). It has a recorded floor area of 135 m² (around 1453 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

Today's modelled estimate of £568,000 is 29% below the 2022 sale of £800,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£551/sq ft) was about 93.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 135 m² the property is well over the postcode median (102 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £800,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.