13 Lucastes Avenue, Haywards Heath, RH16 1JE

13 Lucastes Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Haywards Heath (RH16 1JE). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. Tenure is freehold. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in May 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and main heating dropped from Very Good to Good.

At 148 m² it's 17.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (126 m² median across 4 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£672/sq ft) was about 80% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £1,070,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.