16 Bell Chapel Close, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3NN

16 Bell Chapel Close is a three-bedroom detached house in Kingsnorth, Ashford, Ashford (TN23 3NN). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2015) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 86 m² it's 29.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (123 m² median across 24 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold April 2021 for £359,000. Across the public record there are 4 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 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £420,000 is 17% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£388/sq ft) was about 145.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.