Lavender Cottage, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NQ

Lavender Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Mersham, Ashford, Ashford (TN25 6NQ). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1426 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2008) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Sale prices here have outpaced Ashford HPI: 8.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £715,000 is 33.6% above the 2014 sale price. 12 years since the last transfer (July 2014). Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 132 m² it's 27.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (104 m² median across 5 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs).