Magpies, Bower Road, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NW

Magpies is a three-bedroom detached house in Mersham, Ashford, Ashford (TN25 6NW). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 156 m² it sits well below the postcode median (241 m² across 13 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an annexe, an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £589,000 is 12.2% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£313/sq ft) was about 30.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 9 years since the last transfer (June 2017).