1 Chichester Drive West, Saltdean, Brighton, BN2 8SH

1 Chichester Drive West is a 12-bedroom detached house in Saltdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 8SH). It has a recorded floor area of 333 m² (around 3588 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 333 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 12 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,011,000 sits 248.6% above the 2000 sale of £290,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£81/sq ft) was about 68.3% below the postcode norm.