Priory Cottage, The Street, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 5SL

Priory Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Wilmington, Polegate, Polegate (BN26 5SL). It has a recorded floor area of 27 m² (around 291 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (May 2023) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in January 2018 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 27 m² it sits well below the postcode median (71 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Today's modelled estimate of £947,000 is 14.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£2,839/sq ft) was about 487.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £825,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.