40 Furze Road, Rudgwick, Horsham, RH12 3ES

40 Furze Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Rudgwick, Horsham, Horsham (RH12 3ES). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 123 m² it's 16.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£419/sq ft) was about 48.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2021 for £555,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.