Orchards, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
About Orchards
Orchards is a detached house in Challock, Ashford, Ashford (TN25 4BD). It has a recorded floor area of 186 m² (around 2002 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). Main heating runs on oil.
On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Energy performance
Orchards sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
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Planning history
3 applications on record at Orchards, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
- Jun 2006FullOutcome in report
Erection of 4 stable loose boxes with hay storage including retrospective change of use of agricultural land for the keeping of horses.
Retrospective- Documents
- 8 docs on file
- Reference
- 06/00409/AS
- More recent applications — locked
- FullNov 2015Decision
- ExtensionNov 2015Decision
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Sales history & valuation
Orchards has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£786,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
No sales recorded with HM Land Registry
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Median price across the last 5 sales in TN25 4BD: £730,000 (2021–2010).
Nearby sales in TN25 4BD
Walnut Cottage, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
Sold Jan 2021
£606,000Great Pested Farm, The Barn, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
Sold Sept 2020
£1,800,000Pested Cottage, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
Sold Nov 2016
£730,000Greenfields, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
Sold Feb 2009
£390,000Barnfield, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4BD
Sold Jul 2004
£500,000
Versus other Pested Lane homes
EPC Rating for Orchards lags the street by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
53 (E)
Street avg 66 (D)
Floor Area
186 m²
Street avg 231 m²
CO₂ Emissions
8.5 t/year
Street avg 7.4 t/year
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 8 rooms
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.8 km
The Stag — bus stop.
Closest school
1.3 km
Challock Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.1dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.8dB







