2 Oakfield Cottages, Rye Road, Sandhurst, Cranbrook, TN18 5JE

2 Oakfield Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Sandhurst, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN18 5JE). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (October 2012) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 75 m² it sits well below the postcode median (123 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£434/sq ft) was about 98.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £350,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.