Ashlands Retreat, The Street, Ash, Sevenoaks, TN15 7HB

Ashlands Retreat is a detached house in Ash, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks (TN15 7HB). It has a recorded floor area of 229 m² (around 2465 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Poor; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 65). Main heating runs on oil.

At 229 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £963,000 is 16% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£337/sq ft) was about 43.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £830,000 in August 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.