Gate Cottage, Old Ashford Road, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0JG

Gate Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Charing, Ashford, Ashford (TN27 0JG). It has a recorded floor area of 122 m² (around 1313 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

At 122 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£476/sq ft) was about 52.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2021 for £625,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.