2 Birling Park Avenue, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5LQ

2 Birling Park Avenue is a five-bedroom detached house in Tunbridge Wells (TN2 5LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 274 m² (around 2948 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2009) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). The latest certificate is from January 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 2009 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 274 m² the property is well over the postcode median (181 m² across 17 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. Across 2006–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,106,000 sits 63.4% above the 2009 sale of £677,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£230/sq ft) was about 22.7% below the postcode norm. 15 planning records sit against the property, 13 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.