51 Foxden Drive, Downswood, Maidstone, ME15 8TQ

51 Foxden Drive is an end-of-terrace house in Downswood, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 8TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2023) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 43 m² it sits well below the postcode median (70 m² across 37 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. Sold February 2021 for £185,000. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£400/sq ft) was about 54.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.