Rookwood, Brissenden Green Lane, Bethersden, Ashford, TN26 3BJ

Rookwood is a five-bedroom detached house in Bethersden, Ashford, Ashford (TN26 3BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 204 m² (around 2196 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. The home occupies a corner plot. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since July 2022. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 204 m² the property is well over the postcode median (132 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£480/sq ft) was about 77.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2022 for £1,055,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.