209 Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5JA
About 209 Forest Road
209 Forest Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Tunbridge Wells (TN2 5JA). It has a recorded floor area of 186 m² (around 2002 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75). Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.
At 186 m² it sits well below the postcode median (270 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,147,000 is 16.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£492/sq ft) was about 41.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £985,000 in June 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms4
- Bathrooms2
Outside
- Private gardenYes
- LandYes
Building
- Period featuresYes
- RefurbishedYes
Energy performance
209 Forest Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
209 Forest Road has been through 5 approved planning applications — a well-evolved property.
- Oct 2024FullIn report
Dropped kerb & new driveway
- Documents
- 6 docs on file
- Reference
- 24/02131/FULL
- Jun 2024OutlineIn report
Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) - Erection of new double garage
- Documents
- 8 docs on file
- Reference
- 24/00856/LAWPRO
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Independent checks surfaced things a buyer would want to understand before offering. The report explains each one in full, with the underlying data and what to ask.
- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£1,147,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£985,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
6 June 2022Most recent
£985,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in TN2 5JA: £1,050,000 (2023–2020).
Nearby sales in TN2 5JA
187b, Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5JA
Sold Jan 2023
£1,815,000193a, Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5JA
Sold Oct 2022
£1,855,000207a, Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5JA
Sold Mar 2021
£825,000173 Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5JA
Sold Oct 2020
£1,050,000187a, Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5JA
Sold Sept 2020
£450,000
Everything we know about 209 Forest Road, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other Forest Road homes
EPC Rating for 209 Forest Road lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,296
Street avg £4,142
Floor Area
186 m²
Street avg 265 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 9 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.3 t/year
Street avg 6.7 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km
The Hermitage — bus stop.
Closest school
1.1 km
Claremont Primary School. 9 schools nearby.
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The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.5dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.4dB