2 Old Forge Cottages, High Street, Brasted, Westerham, TN16 1JA

2 Old Forge Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Brasted, Westerham, Westerham (TN16 1JA). It has a recorded floor area of 47 m² (around 506 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it C (October 2008); the latest reading is 3 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 47 m² it sits well below the postcode median (105 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 84% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £437,000 is 18.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£731/sq ft) was about 127.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £370,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.