1 Trafalgar Cottages, Chart Road, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, ME17 3RB

1 Trafalgar Cottages is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 3RB). It has a recorded floor area of 76 m² (around 818 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

Held since April 2001 — that's 25 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 £467,000 sits 112.3% above the 2001 sale of £220,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£269/sq ft) was about 19.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 76 m² it sits well below the postcode median (200 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs).