30 Birling Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5LX

30 Birling Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Tunbridge Wells (TN2 5LX). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The latest certificate (January 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since October 2010. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

Sold February 2022 for £637,500. Across the public record there are 5 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. At 83 m² it's 17.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (71 m² median across 20 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£714/sq ft) was about 124.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2011.