Hill Cottage, Hawkhurst Road, Cranbrook, TN17 3PU

Hill Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Cranbrook (TN17 3PU). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1568 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include notable views. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (May 2009) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The latest certificate is from May 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

10 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 146 m² it's 17.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (124 m² median across 3 EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £533,000 is 14.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£296/sq ft) was about 64.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold April 2021 for £465,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.