Rectory Cottage, Church Hill, Buckhorn Weston, Gillingham, SP8 5HS

Rectory Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Buckhorn Weston, Gillingham, Gillingham (SP8 5HS). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 49), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 93 m² it sits well below the postcode median (158 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £519,000 is 21.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£428/sq ft) was about 80.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £428,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.