Ashley House, Church Street, West Stour, Gillingham, SP8 5RL

Ashley House is a five-bedroom detached house in West Stour, Gillingham, Gillingham (SP8 5RL). It has a recorded floor area of 219 m² (around 2357 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in December 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 219 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,311,000 is 19.2% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£467/sq ft) was about 86.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in February 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.