Yew Tree Cottage, Stone Street, Stanford, Ashford, TN25 6DN

Yew Tree Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Stanford, Ashford, Ashford (TN25 6DN). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (April 2012) shows a G (score 10), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from April 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

It hasn't traded since July 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 118 m² it sits well below the postcode median (206 m² across 10 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. Across 2003–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £566,000 sits 54.9% above the 2007 sale of £365,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£288/sq ft) was about 23.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.