La Ponte, The Street, Upper Stoke, Rochester, ME3 9RU

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 £683,000 sits 279.4% 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.