Grace Cottage, Childsbridge Way, Seal, Sevenoaks, TN15 0DG

Grace Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Seal, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks (TN15 0DG). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 958 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows an E (score 52), 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 89 m² it sits well below the postcode median (133 m² across 17 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2019, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £541,000 is 12.7% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£501/sq ft) was about 89.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £480,000 in January 2019.