35 Ashford Road, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4BP

35 Ashford Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Bearsted, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME14 4BP). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (December 2015) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (March 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 156 m² it's 20.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (129 m² median across 15 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 10% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £615,000 sits 82.5% above the 2010 sale of £337,000. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2004. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.