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Get started1 Boughton Place Cottage is a semi-detached house in Sandway, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 2BD). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2023) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2017 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 112), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 65 m² it sits well below the postcode median (104 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
1 Boughton Place Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£349,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
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.
On floor area, 1 Boughton Place Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
39 (E)
Street avg 41 (E)
Floor Area
65 m²
Street avg 214 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.6 t/year
Street avg 16.1 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.8dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
Hot water efficiency improved
More low energy lighting installed
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Median price across the last 5 sales in ME17 2BD: £650,000 (2020–1999).
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 8 rooms
Primary School — bus stop.
Closest school
1.1 km
Platts Heath Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.8dB