Woodlands, Bourne Lane, Hamstreet, Ashford, TN26 2HH

Woodlands is a five-bedroom detached house in Hamstreet, Ashford, Ashford (TN26 2HH). It has a recorded floor area of 160 m² (around 1722 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows a C (score 70). When first surveyed in October 2014 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 160 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£398/sq ft) was about 34.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £685,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.