Ember Cottage, Church Street, West Stour, Gillingham, SP8 5RL

Ember Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in West Stour, Gillingham, Gillingham (SP8 5RL). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (December 2021) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in May 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 148 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £534,000 sits 233.8% above the 1998 sale of £160,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£100/sq ft) was about 61.5% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.