2 Pear Tree Cottages, Pickering Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RH
About 2 Pear Tree Cottages
2 Pear Tree Cottages is a semi-detached house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 9RH). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2025) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump.
One planning record on file: new windows refused in 2002. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 101 m² it sits well below the postcode median (149 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs).
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
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Trends
the local market
Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
Planning history
2 Pear Tree Cottages has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
- Nov 2002RenovationHeritageIn report
An application for listed building consent to replace softwood windows in extended part of house with upvc double glazed units as shown on drawing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9 and 10 received on 30.08.02 and 10.09.02.
ListedNew Windows- Reference
- 02/1655
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
2 Pear Tree Cottages has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£416,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
No sales recorded with HM Land Registry
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Median price across the last 5 sales in ME15 9RH: £860,000 (2024–2023).
Nearby sales in ME15 9RH
Cherry Lodge, Pickering Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RH
Sold Oct 2024
£875,000Slade House, Pickering Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RH
Sold Jul 2024
£860,000Chareda, Pickering Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RH
Sold Jun 2024
£930,000Llewelyn, Pickering Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RH
Sold May 2023
£550,0001 Pear Tree Cottages, Pickering Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RH
Sold May 2023
£320,000
Everything we know about 2 Pear Tree Cottages, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Pickering Street homes
On epc rating, 2 Pear Tree Cottages runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
51 (E)
Street avg 66 (D)
Floor Area
101 m²
Street avg 178 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.6 t/year
Street avg 6.8 t/year
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
6/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km
The Walnut Tree — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Loose Primary School. 20 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.2dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.7dB