Boyne House, Hayes Lane, Slinfold, Horsham, RH13 0SQ

Boyne House is a five-bedroom detached house in Slinfold, Horsham, Horsham (RH13 0SQ). It has a recorded floor area of 207 m² (around 2228 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in February 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Average, roof efficiency went from Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Average; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 207 m² the property is well over the postcode median (121 m² across 30 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£442/sq ft) was about 60.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £985,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.