249 Eastbourne Road, Polegate, BN26 5DL

249 Eastbourne Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Polegate (BN26 5DL). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 589 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (139 m² across 18 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. Last sold in October 2017, so it's been off the market for around 9 years. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1998–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £299,000 is 27.2% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£399/sq ft) was about 70.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2008.