3 Dorchester Close, Cliffe Woods, Rochester, ME3 8JB

3 Dorchester Close is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Cliffe Woods, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 8JB). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 553 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 51 m² it's 16.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (44 m² median across 16 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2001–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £171,000 is 27.6% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£242/sq ft) was about 20.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in April 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.