8 Lancaster Close, Hamstreet, Ashford, TN26 2JG

8 Lancaster Close is a semi-detached house in Hamstreet, Ashford, Ashford (TN26 2JG). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.

Held since March 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £354,000 sits 237.1% above the 1999 sale of £105,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£118/sq ft) was about 56.2% below the postcode norm. At 83 m² it sits well below the postcode median (128 m² across 84 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs).