Ways End, Wilderness Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5EZ

Ways End is a four-bedroom detached house in Chislehurst (BR7 5EZ). It has a recorded floor area of 258 m² (around 2777 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (August 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 66), a 2-band jump.

At 258 m² it's 29.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (366 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £2,100,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 10 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, tree works, a porch and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£756/sq ft) was about 46.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.