81 High Street, Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks, BN6 9RE

81 High Street is a five-bedroom detached house in Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks, Hassocks (BN6 9RE). It has a recorded floor area of 222 m² (around 2390 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 222 m² the property is well over the postcode median (142 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,271,000 is 10.5% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£481/sq ft) was about 119.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused. Sold February 2022 for £1,150,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.