Ashdown Lodge, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LE
About Ashdown Lodge
Ashdown Lodge is a seven-bedroom detached house in Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 7LE). It has a recorded floor area of 247 m² (around 2659 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.
At 247 m² the property is well over the postcode median (141 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,067,000 is 15.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£348/sq ft) was about 16.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £925,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms7
- Bathrooms3
Outside
- Private gardenSouth-facing
Building
- Extension potentialPossible
Energy performance
Ashdown Lodge's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
Planning history at Ashdown Lodge is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
- Jan 2025Tree WorksTreesIn report
WORK AS PER SCHEDULE WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (DANEHILL) TPO/2008/0035
- Documents
- 15 docs on file
- Reference
- TM/2024/0261/TPO
- Dec 2022Tree WorksTreesIn report
REMOVE ONE BRANCH ON ONE OAK TREE WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (DANEHILL) TPO/2008/0035
- Documents
- 4 docs on file
- Reference
- TM/2022/0110/TPO
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
Ashdown Lodge's sale-price growth has lagged the wider UK trajectory across its history on file.
£1,067,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 0.7% per year over 13 years.
£925,000
Growth on file: 0.7% per year over 13 years.
Sales timeline
26 February 2021Most recent
£925,000
+10.1%over 13 years5 December 2007
£840,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RH17 7LE: £540,000 (2024–2019).
Nearby sales in RH17 7LE
North View, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LE
Sold Oct 2024
£550,000Inneswood, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LE
Sold Jan 2024
£795,000Chatterton Place, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LE
Sold Mar 2021
£380,000The Lawns, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LE
Sold Nov 2020
£540,000Methlyk, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LE
Sold May 2019
£465,000
Everything we know about Ashdown Lodge, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other Beaconsfield Road homes
Ashdown Lodge is notably below the street on co₂ emissions.
Price per m²
£3,745
Street avg £4,230
Floor Area
247 m²
Street avg 187 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
13.0 t/year
Street avg 9.5 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Sandy Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
2.1 km
Danehill Church of England Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.5dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.9dB