1 Diamond Cottages, Bretts Orchard, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, RH17 6PL

1 Diamond Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Balcombe, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 6PL). It has a recorded floor area of 107 m² (around 1152 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2015) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 107 m² the property is well over the postcode median (54 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £464,000 is 30.7% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£308/sq ft) was about 41.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in June 2016. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007.