5 Discovery Road, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME15 8HF

5 Discovery Road is a detached house in Bearsted, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 8HF). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 105 m² it's 25.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (141 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £526,000 sits 215.9% above the 1999 sale of £166,495. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£147/sq ft) was about 30.6% below the postcode norm.