Merin Cottage, Iden Green Road, Iden Green, Cranbrook, TN17 4HA

Merin Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Iden Green, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN17 4HA). It has a recorded floor area of 226 m² (around 2433 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2023) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 226 m² the property is well over the postcode median (120 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£337/sq ft) was about 23.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £820,000 in June 2024.