Fern Cottage, Rowhook Road, Rowhook, Horsham, RH12 3PY

Fern Cottage is a detached house in Rowhook, Horsham, Horsham (RH12 3PY). It has a recorded floor area of 167 m² (around 1798 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2013) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from August 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £824,000 sits 189.1% above the 1999 sale of £285,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£159/sq ft) was about 41.7% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.