Finch Cottage, Bullfinch Close, Sevenoaks, TN13 2BB

Finch Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Sevenoaks (TN13 2BB). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 75 m² it's 20.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (94 m² median across 26 EPCs). 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, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £699,000 is 10.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£787/sq ft) was about 223.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £635,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.