The Mount, Church Lane, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4EF

The Mount is a seven-bedroom semi-detached house in Bearsted, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME14 4EF). It has a recorded floor area of 299 m² (around 3218 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 299 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 5 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £987,000 sits 53.6% above the 2022 sale of £642,500. 15 planning records sit against the property, 10 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £642,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.