The Old Rectory, High Street, Rusper, Horsham, RH12 4PX

The Old Rectory is a seven-bedroom detached house in Rusper, Horsham, Horsham (RH12 4PX). It has a recorded floor area of 554 m² (around 5963 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (May 2009) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 554 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 10 planning records sit against the property, 9 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£394/sq ft) was about 16.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.