Beacon House, The Street, Bethersden, Ashford, TN26 3AE

Beacon House is a six-bedroom detached house in Bethersden, Ashford, Ashford (TN26 3AE). It has a recorded floor area of 325 m² (around 3498 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2008 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 325 m² the property is well over the postcode median (165 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 10 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£400/sq ft) was about 69.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold January 2021 for £1,400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.