Smiths Farm, Hollingbourne Hill, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, ME17 1QJ

Smiths Farm is a detached house in Hollingbourne, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 1QJ). It has a recorded floor area of 209 m² (around 2250 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2013) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 65). Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from February 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1998 — that's 28 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. Today's modelled estimate of £850,000 sits 209.1% above the 1998 sale of £275,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£122/sq ft) was about 63.4% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2014. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 209 m² it's 20% larger than the typical home in the postcode (174 m² median across 4 EPCs).