Orchard Cottage, Chequer Lane, Bosham, Chichester, PO18 8EJ

Orchard Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Bosham, Chichester, Chichester (PO18 8EJ). It has a recorded floor area of 187 m² (around 2013 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2018) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 187 m² the property is well over the postcode median (126 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: September 2018 at £1,150,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1999–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,383,000 is 20.3% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£571/sq ft) was about 81.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.