1 New Oast Cottages, Spade Lane, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, ME9 7LZ
About 1 New Oast Cottages
1 New Oast Cottages is a semi-detached house in Hartlip, Sittingbourne, Sittingbourne (ME9 7LZ). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2017) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2018–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at -11.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £343,000 is 14% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£373/sq ft) was about 79.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 75 m² it's 26.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 5 EPCs). Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £301,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
1 New Oast Cottages's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
- Aug 2024PorchFullIn report
Extension: Two storey · Side of property
Erection of a two storey side extension, new front porch, additional cladding and new parking area to the front.
Extension- Documents
- 16 docs on file
- Reference
- 24/501700/FULL
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£343,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of -11.5% per year over 4 years.
£301,000
Growth on file: -11.5% per year over 4 years.
Sales timeline
27 October 2022Most recent
£301,000
-39.8%over 4 years5 September 2018
£500,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in ME9 7LZ: £260,000 (2020–1997).
Everything we know about 1 New Oast Cottages, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Spade Lane homes
Floor Area for 1 New Oast Cottages lags the street by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
45 (E)
Street avg 46 (E)
Floor Area
75 m²
Street avg 152 m²
CO₂ Emissions
6.7 t/year
Street avg 5.9 t/year
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
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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
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.8 km
Seymour Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.9 km
Hartlip Endowed Church of England Primary School. 14 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.0dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.9dB