Yew Tree House, Walkhurst Road, Benenden, Cranbrook, TN17 4DR

Yew Tree House is a detached house in Benenden, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN17 4DR). It has a recorded floor area of 385 m² (around 4144 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (October 2015) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 385 m² the property is well over the postcode median (245 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 9 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£444/sq ft) was about 64.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £1,840,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.