Castries, Palace Road, Westerham, TN16 2EH

Castries is a six-bedroom detached house in Westerham (TN16 2EH). It has a recorded floor area of 271 m² (around 2917 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band H. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows a C (score 71). The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 85).

Held since April 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 271 m² the property is well over the postcode median (115 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,338,000 is 43.1% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£321/sq ft) was about 15.1% below the postcode norm.