Manor Cottage, The Lane, Westdean, Seaford, BN25 4AL

Manor Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Westdean, Seaford, Seaford (BN25 4AL). It has a recorded floor area of 178 m² (around 1916 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 178 m² it sits well below the postcode median (264 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£757/sq ft) was about 194.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £1,450,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.