Beech Cottage, Stream Lane, Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, TN18 4RB

Beech Cottage is a detached house in Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN18 4RB). It has a recorded floor area of 232 m² (around 2497 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump.

At 232 m² the property is well over the postcode median (159 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£469/sq ft) was about 41.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £1,170,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.