34b, Arlington Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1DL

34b is a one-bedroom detached house in Eastbourne (BN21 1DL). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 829 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 77 m² this is the 10th smallest of 33 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 45–312 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (27 versus a best of 72).

Held since July 1999 — that's 27 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 77 m² it's 27% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 32 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £171,000 sits 327.5% above the 1999 sale of £40,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£48/sq ft) was about 68.3% below the postcode norm.