La Ponte, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
About La Ponte
La Ponte is a detached house in Upper Stoke, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 9RU). It has a recorded floor area of 217 m² (around 2336 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (November 2024) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 65). Main heating runs on oil.
Held since June 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 217 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £670,000 sits 272.2% above the 2000 sale of £180,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£77/sq ft) was about 59% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2006. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
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Energy performance
La Ponte's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
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Planning history
1 application on record at La Ponte, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
- Feb 2006Garage ConversionFullOutcome in report
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Conversion of garage into habitable room with insertion of bay window and construction of single storey extension to rear
Extension- Documents
- 5 docs on file
- Reference
- MC/06/0107
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Sales history & valuation
La Ponte's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (2000).
£670,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£180,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
1 June 2000Most recent
£180,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in ME3 9RU: £262,500 (2024–2014).
Nearby sales in ME3 9RU
1 Elm Tree Cottages, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
Sold Nov 2024
£335,0002 Elm Tree Cottages, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
Sold Mar 2023
£262,500Lych Gate House, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
Sold Sept 2019
£495,0003 Elm Tree Cottages, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
Sold May 2014
£137,5004 Elm Tree Cottages, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU
Sold Mar 2003
£90,000
Versus other The Street homes
On price per m², La Ponte runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£829
Street avg £2,904
Floor Area
217 m²
Street avg 89 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 5.7 t/year
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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
0.1 km
Vicarage Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
1.4 km
Leigh Academy Peninsula East. 1 school nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.0dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.3dB