Little Gallops, Ditchling Common, Ditchling, Hassocks, BN6 8SF

Little Gallops is a detached house in Ditchling, Hassocks, Hassocks (BN6 8SF). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2011); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2006. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 166 m² it's 21.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (137 m² median across 5 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 2013–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£560/sq ft) was about 526.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,000,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.