Sunshine Cottage, Mill Lane, Hawkinge, Folkestone, CT18 7BY

Sunshine Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Hawkinge, Folkestone, Folkestone (CT18 7BY). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£502/sq ft) was about 157.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 74 m² it's 20.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (93 m² median across 16 EPCs). Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.