51 Bexhill Road, St Leonards On Sea, TN38 0AJ

51 Bexhill Road is a mid-terrace house in St Leonards On Sea (TN38 0AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (December 2016) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2009. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and lighting dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

Held since September 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. At 120 m² the property is well over the postcode median (67 m² across 39 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 74% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £260,000 sits 712.5% above the 1997 sale of £32,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£25/sq ft) was about 76.6% below the postcode norm.