Lilac Cottage, Frensham Road, Rolvenden Layne, Cranbrook, TN17 4NJ

Lilac Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Rolvenden Layne, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN17 4NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 107 m² (around 1152 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 107 m² the property is well over the postcode median (55 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£586/sq ft) was about 174.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £675,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2006.