Rectory Cottage, Lewes Road, Westmeston, Hassocks, BN6 8RH

Rectory Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Westmeston, Hassocks, Hassocks (BN6 8RH). It has a recorded floor area of 339 m² (around 3649 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2020 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 64). Main heating runs on lpg.

At 339 m² the property is well over the postcode median (136 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,826,000 is 31.4% above the 2021 sale price. Last sale on file: £1,390,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.