2 Searles Cottages, The Green, Horsted Keynes, Haywards Heath, RH17 7AP

2 Searles Cottages is a mid-terrace house in Horsted Keynes, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 7AP). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2015) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from June 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since January 1997 — that's 29 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 £367,000 sits 416.9% above the 1997 sale of £71,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£96/sq ft) was about 69.3% below the postcode norm. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 77% of similar EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007.