Orchard Cottage, The Street, High Halstow, Rochester, ME3 8SF

Orchard Cottage is a detached house in High Halstow, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 8SF). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 95 m² it's 27.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (131 m² median across 4 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 2002–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £518,000 is 41.9% above the 2014 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£357/sq ft) was about 106.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 12 years ago, in August 2014.