Hampden Cottage, The Green, Horsted Keynes, Haywards Heath, RH17 7AW

Hampden Cottage is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Horsted Keynes, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 7AW). It has a recorded floor area of 125 m² (around 1345 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 3 certificates since September 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£520/sq ft) was about 69.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £700,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.