Old Mill Cottage, Cuckfield Road, Ansty, Haywards Heath, RH17 5AE

Old Mill Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Ansty, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 5AE). It has a recorded floor area of 286 m² (around 3078 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in October 2019 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 66), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 286 m² the property is well over the postcode median (107 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £1,250,000 is 25% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£325/sq ft) was about 38.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 5 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £1,000,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.