Canton House, Flat 14, Great Heathmead, Haywards Heath, RH16 1FD

Canton House is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Haywards Heath (RH16 1FD). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. At 48 m² this is the 6th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in Canton House, where floor areas span 31–92 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (41 versus a best of 82). The latest certificate (February 2024) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (March 2014); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 48 m² it's 24.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (64 m² median across 23 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£368/sq ft) was about 59% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £190,000 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.