Forge Cottage, The Street, Frittenden, Cranbrook, TN17 2DG

Forge Cottage is a semi-detached house in Frittenden, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN17 2DG). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2023) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in December 2020 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 110 m² it sits well below the postcode median (198 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£435/sq ft) was about 22.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £515,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.