4 Highbury Cottages, Horsham Road, Handcross, Haywards Heath, RH17 6DR

4 Highbury Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Handcross, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 6DR). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in November 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump.

Held since October 1999 — that's 27 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. Today's modelled estimate of £366,000 sits 232.9% above the 1999 sale of £109,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£148/sq ft) was about 44.2% below the postcode norm. At 69 m² it's 17.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (84 m² median across 9 EPCs).