Lye Green House, Lye Green, Crowborough, TN6 1UU

Lye Green House is a detached house in Crowborough (TN6 1UU). It has a recorded floor area of 505 m² (around 5436 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 4 certificates since April 2010. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bulk wood pellets.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £2,351,000 is 14.5% below the 2021 sale of £2,750,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£506/sq ft) was about 62.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 505 m² the property is well over the postcode median (163 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: October 2021 at £2,750,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.