Timbers, Kingswood Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4UJ

Timbers is a detached house in Tunbridge Wells (TN2 4UJ). It has a recorded floor area of 175 m² (around 1884 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in February 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced Tunbridge Wells HPI: 6.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £984,000 is 15.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£451/sq ft) was about 36% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 175 m² the property is well over the postcode median (97 m² across 24 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. Last sale on file: £850,000 in September 2021. 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.