Fairbourne Manor, Fairbourne Lane, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME17 1LN

Fairbourne Manor is a six-bedroom detached house in Harrietsham, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 1LN). It has a recorded floor area of 496 m² (around 5339 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (May 2012) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced Maidstone HPI: 8.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£314/sq ft) was about 18.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 496 m² the property is well over the postcode median (251 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 40 planning records sit against the property, 34 approved, 6 refused. Past consents include partial demolition, an extension, an annexe and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Sold December 2022 for £1,675,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.