Flat 8, 12 Bayham Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 3XA

Flat 8 is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Sevenoaks (TN13 3XA). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2009 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 48 m² this is the 7th smallest of 9 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 33–56 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 9 units on file. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (102 m² across 21 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £255,000 in September 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£494/sq ft) was about 60.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.