1 St James Road, Isle Of Grain, Rochester, ME3 0BU

1 St James Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Isle Of Grain, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 0BU). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 74% of similar EPCs). Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £264,000 is 14.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£246/sq ft) was about 87.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £230,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.