1 New Cottage, Upper Street, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, ME17 1UJ

1 New Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hollingbourne, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 1UJ). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 43), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 74 m² it sits well below the postcode median (160 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £365,000 is 18.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£386/sq ft) was about 67.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £307,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.