Brambletye, Gravelly Bottom Road, Kingswood, Maidstone, ME17 3PZ

Brambletye is a five-bedroom detached house in Kingswood, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 3PZ). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1419 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2009) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). The latest certificate is from November 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

Held since January 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 £602,000 sits 277.4% above the 1998 sale of £159,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£112/sq ft) was about 59.9% below the postcode norm. At 132 m² it's 18.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (163 m² median across 6 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count.