3 Orchard Farm Cottage, Lested Lane, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, ME17 3RZ

3 Orchard Farm Cottage is an end-of-terrace house in Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 3RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 165 m² (around 1776 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows a C (score 77), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in July 2014 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 86).

Sale prices here have outpaced Maidstone HPI: 15.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£355/sq ft) was about 28.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 165 m² the property is well over the postcode median (114 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold June 2021 for £630,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.