Oakwood, Beaconsfield Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7LF

Oakwood is a five-bedroom detached house in Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, Haywards Heath (RH17 7LF). It has a recorded floor area of 193 m² (around 2077 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2018 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 56). Main heating runs on lpg.

At 193 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£385/sq ft) was about 50.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £800,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.