Forest Lodge, The Gate House, Westerham Road, Keston, BR2 6HE

Forest Lodge is a three-bedroom detached house in Keston (BR2 6HE). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 59).

5 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£753/sq ft) was about 54.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £875,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.