Fairview House, Rosemary Lane, Petworth, GU28 0AY

Fairview House is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Petworth (GU28 0AY). It has a recorded floor area of 150 m² (around 1615 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 57), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include a basement.

Untraded for 31 years, with the last transfer in October 1995. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 150 m² it's 26.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (119 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £608,000 sits 335.8% above the 1995 sale of £139,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£86/sq ft) was about 76.4% below the postcode norm.