The Oast House, Salts Lane, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0BD

The Oast House is a six-bedroom detached house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0BD). It has a recorded floor area of 246 m² (around 2648 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2013) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in August 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 66). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from January 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 246 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 8 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £1,040,000 is 22.4% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£321/sq ft) was about 16.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 9 years since the last transfer (March 2017).