Lothlorien Cottage, Bottlescrew Hill, Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, ME17 4LZ

Lothlorien Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 4LZ). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump.

Held since September 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 10 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch, an annexe and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2002–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 12% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £555,000 is 33.7% above the 2010 sale price.