The Chimes, Vicarage Lane, Ashford, TN23 1NJ

The Chimes is a five-bedroom detached house in Ashford (TN23 1NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 181 m² (around 1948 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 181 m² the property is well over the postcode median (62 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in April 2016. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £559,000 is 25.6% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£228/sq ft) was about 40.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.