The Barn, Canterbury Road, Sarre, Birchington, CT7 0JY

The Barn is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Sarre, Birchington, Birchington (CT7 0JY). It has a recorded floor area of 169 m² (around 1819 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since May 2010. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 58), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£357/sq ft) was about 100.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 169 m² the property is well over the postcode median (105 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 10 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sale on file: £650,000 in September 2021. 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.