Lower Green Cottage, Back Road, Sandhurst, Cranbrook, TN18 5JS

Lower Green Cottage is a detached house in Sandhurst, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN18 5JS). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2025) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since June 2015. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72).

Sold April 2021 for £530,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a garage conversion, an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 166 m² it's 20.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (138 m² median across 5 EPCs). Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £690,000 is 30.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£297/sq ft) was about 49.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.