18 Lovat Mead, St Leonards On Sea, TN38 8EH

18 Lovat Mead is a one-bedroom detached house in St Leonards On Sea (TN38 8EH). It has a recorded floor area of 35 m² (around 377 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band A. At 35 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 61 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 33–64 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (July 2018) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 35 m² it sits well below the postcode median (50 m² across 60 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. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£358/sq ft) was about 114.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £135,000 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.