The Orchards Bungalow, Shurland Avenue, Leysdown On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 4QU

The Orchards Bungalow is a three-bedroom detached house in Leysdown-On-Sea, Sheerness, Sheerness (ME12 4QU). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1227 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2022) returns a high B (score 85), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in November 2012 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 107). The home occupies a corner plot.

At 114 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£297/sq ft) was about 96% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold July 2022 for £365,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.