Tethers End, Charlton Lane, West Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0NL

Tethers End is a two-bedroom detached house in West Farleigh, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0NL). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since April 2021. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 108), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 54 m² it sits well below the postcode median (93 m² across 6 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. Across 2021–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 13.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£740/sq ft) was about 77.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £430,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.