The Barn Cottage, Romford Road, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4BB

The Barn Cottage is a detached house in Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells (TN2 4BB). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 120 m² it sits well below the postcode median (179 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,079,000 is 15.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£724/sq ft) was about 127.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2022 for £935,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.