1 Stanhope Road, Rochester, ME2 3EJ

1 Stanhope Road is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Rochester (ME2 3EJ). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2023) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in August 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Good to Very Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a basement.

At 117 m² the property is well over the postcode median (80 m² across 31 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £336,000 in July 2022. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: a basement excavation approved in 2017. Past consents include a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£267/sq ft) was about 89.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.