2 Hope Cottage, Canterbury Road, Brabourne Lees, Ashford, TN25 6QT

2 Hope Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Brabourne Lees, Ashford, Ashford (TN25 6QT). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory, outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 62 m² it sits well below the postcode median (175 m² across 4 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. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £365,000 is 32.7% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£412/sq ft) was about 47.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (October 2016).