Masons Farm, Headcorn Road, Grafty Green, Maidstone, ME17 2AP

Masons Farm is a six-bedroom detached house in Grafty Green, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 2AP). It has a recorded floor area of 367 m² (around 3950 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include notable views.

At 367 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£354/sq ft) was about 18.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,400,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.