3 Retreat Cottages, Hilltop, Hunton, Maidstone, ME15 0QN

3 Retreat Cottages is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Hunton, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0QN). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2017) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 101), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (89 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2020. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £578,000 is 24.3% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£831/sq ft) was about 115.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in January 2018 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.