Palace Gallery, Market Place, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0LR

Palace Gallery is a one-bedroom detached house in Charing, Ashford, Ashford (TN27 0LR). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2024) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since November 2008. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 66), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since May 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (102 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2005. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2011, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £215,000 is 41.6% above the 2011 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£294/sq ft) was about 40.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.