Birchenbridge House, Brighton Road, Mannings Heath, Horsham, RH13 6HY

Birchenbridge House is a six-bedroom detached house in Mannings Heath, Horsham, Horsham (RH13 6HY). It has a recorded floor area of 281 m² (around 3025 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since August 1997 — that's 29 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. At 281 m² the property is well over the postcode median (159 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,188,000 sits 302.7% above the 1997 sale of £295,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£98/sq ft) was about 49.9% below the postcode norm. 7 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 2 refused.