5 Betherinden Cottages, Bodiam Road, Sandhurst, Cranbrook, TN18 5LW

5 Betherinden Cottages is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Sandhurst, Cranbrook, Cranbrook (TN18 5LW). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £350,000 is 36.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£284/sq ft) was about 21.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold February 2021 for £257,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.