36 High Street, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2QD

36 High Street is a five-bedroom detached house in Lenham, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 2QD). It has a recorded floor area of 245 m² (around 2637 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot and a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 245 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 14 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include new windows, an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £1,034,000 is 10.6% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£355/sq ft) was about 64% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold October 2022 for £935,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.