4 Shingle Barn Farm Cottages, Smiths Hill, West Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0PH

4 Shingle Barn Farm Cottages is a semi-detached house in West Farleigh, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0PH). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2015) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from August 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Across 1998–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £443,000 is 19.5% below the 2017 sale of £550,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£616/sq ft) was about 137.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sold in March 2017, so it's been off the market for around 9 years. At 83 m² it's 18.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 3 EPCs).