Alma Cottage, Worthing Road, Dial Post, Horsham, RH13 8NH

Alma Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Dial Post, Horsham, Horsham (RH13 8NH). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 721 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2025) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in August 2007. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 67 m² it sits well below the postcode median (130 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 2002–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £689,000 is 37.8% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£693/sq ft) was about 139.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.