Gattons, Cooling Street, Cliffe, Rochester, ME3 7UA
About Gattons
Gattons is a detached house in Cliffe, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 7UA). It has a recorded floor area of 420 m² (around 4521 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2022) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.
At 420 m² the property is well over the postcode median (194 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.
Energy performance
Gattons's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
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Planning history
Gattons has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
2 applications on record at Gattons, Cooling Street, Cliffe, Rochester, ME3 7UA
- Sept 2002HeritageOutcome in report
Listed Building Consent for replacement of bitumen coated roof valleys with lead
Listed- Documents
- 1 doc on file
- Reference
- MC/02/1542
- More recent applications — locked
- ConversionJul 2003Decision
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Sales history & valuation
Gattons has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£1,651,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
No sales recorded with HM Land Registry
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Median price across the last 5 sales in ME3 7UA: £500,000 (2024–2005).
Nearby sales in ME3 7UA
1 Gattons Farm Cottages, Cooling Street, Cliffe, Rochester, ME3 7UA
Sold Dec 2024
£550,000Gattons Farm, Market Lodge, Cooling Street, Cliffe, Rochester, ME3 7UA
Sold Aug 2017
£835,000Redbarn, Cooling Street, Cliffe, Rochester, ME3 7UA
Sold Feb 2017
£500,000Red Barn Cottage, Cooling Street, Cliffe, Rochester, ME3 7UA
Sold Dec 1999
£215,000
Versus other Cooling Street homes
Gattons is notably below the street on epc rating.
EPC Rating
41 (E)
Street avg 61 (D)
Floor Area
420 m²
Street avg 195 m²
CO₂ Emissions
20.0 t/year
Street avg 7.6 t/year
Habitable Rooms
11 rooms
Street avg 9 rooms
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
9/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.2 km
Norwood Close — bus stop.
Closest school
1.3 km
St Helen's Church of England Primary School, Cliffe. 2 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.4dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.8dB







