Ridgecrest, Chart Road, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, ME17 3RB

Ridgecrest is a two-bedroom detached house in Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 3RB). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory and attached land beyond the plot. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 75 m² it sits well below the postcode median (200 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2022. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £512,000 is 10.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£576/sq ft) was about 162.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £465,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.