The Orchard, Rusper Road, Ifield, Crawley, RH11 0LN

The Orchard is a five-bedroom detached house in Ifield, Crawley, Crawley (RH11 0LN). It has a recorded floor area of 277 m² (around 2982 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2019) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since June 2014. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

At 277 m² the property is well over the postcode median (160 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 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,045,000 is 13% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£310/sq ft) was about 26.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £925,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.