7 Chapel Road, Isle Of Grain, Rochester, ME3 0BQ

7 Chapel Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Isle Of Grain, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 0BQ). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 121 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £320,000. Across the public record there are 4 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: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£246/sq ft) was about 46.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.