28a, Queen Street, Ashford, TN23 1RG

28a is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Ashford (TN23 1RG). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (April 2025) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2018 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 54 m² this is the 5th smallest of 27 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 43–135 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to B across 27 units on file.

At 54 m² it's 26% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (73 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold November 2021 for £145,000. 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. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£249/sq ft) was about 60.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.