Ragstone Barn, Conghurst Lane, Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, TN18 4RW

Ragstone Barn is a four-bedroom detached house in Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN18 4RW). It has a recorded floor area of 230 m² (around 2476 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 52). Main heating runs on oil.

At 230 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 6 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. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch, partial demolition and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £880,000 is 29.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£275/sq ft) was about 30.5% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £680,000 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.