2 Magpie Cottage, White Hill Road, Detling, Maidstone, ME14 3HH

2 Magpie Cottage is a semi-detached house in Detling, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME14 3HH). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (July 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel.

At 86 m² it sits well below the postcode median (286 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension, a porch and solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £478,000 is 10.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£468/sq ft) was about 77.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £433,500 in December 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.