15 Celestine Close, Chatham, ME5 9NG

15 Celestine Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Chatham (ME5 9NG). It has a recorded floor area of 115 m² (around 1237 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since July 2010. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 115 m² it's 16.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (99 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £456,000 sits 65.8% above the 2010 sale of £275,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£222/sq ft) was about 26.7% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2012. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.