15 Cleves Road, Kemsing, Sevenoaks, TN15 6RX

15 Cleves Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Kemsing, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks (TN15 6RX). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since January 2016. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump.

It hasn't traded since October 2004, a hold of 22 years that's notably long for the area. At 129 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1998–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £551,000 sits 95.7% above the 2004 sale of £281,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£203/sq ft) was about 43.7% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.