1 Meadow Crescent, Upper Halling, Rochester, ME2 1JJ

1 Meadow Crescent is a semi-detached house in Upper Halling, Rochester, Rochester (ME2 1JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (June 2015) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since December 2013. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since October 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 105 m² it's 22.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (86 m² median across 34 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £310,000 sits 762.1% above the 1997 sale of £35,960. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£32/sq ft) was about 82.6% below the postcode norm.