Forstal Cottage, Alkham Valley Road, Alkham, Dover, CT15 7DF

Forstal Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Alkham, Dover, Dover (CT15 7DF). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 123 m² it's 26.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (98 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £510,000 is 10.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£347/sq ft) was about 45.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £460,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.