1 Bakehouse Cottage, High Street, Lower Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RD

1 Bakehouse Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Lower Stoke, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 9RD). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (November 2015) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across 1999–2006, sale prices on this property compounded at 11.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £254,000 sits 111.7% above the 2006 sale of £120,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£180/sq ft) was about 23.7% below the postcode norm. At 62 m² it sits well below the postcode median (114 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs).