15 Droveway Gardens, St Margarets Bay, Dover, CT15 6BS

15 Droveway Gardens is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in St. Margarets Bay, Dover, Dover (CT15 6BS). It has a recorded floor area of 165 m² (around 1776 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2019) shows a C (score 72). When first surveyed in September 2016 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, a porch and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 165 m² it's 19.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (138 m² median across 9 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 89% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £515,000 is 45.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£200/sq ft) was about 40.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £355,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.