20 Beacon Road, Ditchling, Hassocks, BN6 8UL

20 Beacon Road is a semi-detached house in Ditchling, Hassocks, Hassocks (BN6 8UL). It has a recorded floor area of 210 m² (around 2260 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2013) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 210 m² the property is well over the postcode median (154 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £707,000 sits 423.7% above the 1996 sale of £135,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£60/sq ft) was about 82.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: a garage conversion refused in 2007.