5 Taywood Close, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0AT

5 Taywood Close is a six-bedroom detached house in Willesborough, Ashford, Ashford (TN24 0AT). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 495 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2012 onwards and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since May 2014. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Good to Very Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 46 m² it sits well below the postcode median (86 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an annexe and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £626,000 is 39.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£909/sq ft) was about 564.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £450,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.