4 Brickfield Cottage, Kempes Corner, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, TN25 4ER

4 Brickfield Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Ashford (TN25 4ER). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (November 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced Ashford HPI: 8.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£488/sq ft) was about 37.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 78 m² it sits well below the postcode median (137 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold May 2021 for £409,500. 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. 6 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused.