1 Cowden Road, Saltdean, Brighton, BN2 8DD

1 Cowden Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Saltdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 8DD). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 81 m² it sits well below the postcode median (120 m² across 4 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. Across 1998–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £422,000 sits 50.7% above the 2015 sale of £280,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£321/sq ft) was about 29.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2018. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in March 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.