5 Castle Terrace, Cranbrook Road, Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, TN18 4BQ

5 Castle Terrace is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN18 4BQ). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since July 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 96), a 4-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £244,000. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £287,000 is 17.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£306/sq ft) was about 35.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.