1a, Alfred Street, St Leonards On Sea, TN38 0HD

1a is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in St Leonards On Sea (TN38 0HD). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in May 2009 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and window efficiency went from Poor to Average; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (88 m² across 31 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £227,000 sits 63.9% above the 2015 sale of £138,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£234/sq ft) was about 69% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 11 years since the last transfer (February 2015).