Are you a property professional?Get qualified leads from motivated homeowners.
Get startedRookery Cottage, Sandwich Road, Eastry, Sandwich, CT13 0DR
4 sales on record
About Rookery Cottage
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
Rookery Cottage is a mid-terrace house in Eastry, Sandwich, Sandwich (CT13 0DR). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in March 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£455/sq ft) was about 134.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (95 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £235,000 in June 2022. 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.
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Current Certificate(1 of 2)
Apr 2022
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
D60
E
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Good
Windows
Good
CO2 Emissions
2.8 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
Rookery Cottage has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1999.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£237,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.4% per year over 23 years.
Last sold (2022)
£235,000
Growth on file: 7.4% per year over 23 years.
Sales timeline
Versus other Sandwich Road homes
Four headline reads against 7 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
Floor Area for Rookery Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,896
Street avg £3,936
Floor Area
48 m²
Street avg 118 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Sandwich district page.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around CT13 0DR from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.5dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 34 points of interest in total.
Beautiful places to visit nearby
Curated scenic spots within reach of this postcode, served by Beautifulplaces.ai. Photography and tagging come from their open dataset.
Common questions
The questions buyers, sellers and homeowners most often ask about Rookery Cottage, Sandwich Road, Eastry, Sandwich, CT13 0DR. Each answer is also embedded as structured data for search engines.