Starvenden, Station Road, Pluckley, Ashford, TN27 0QX

Starvenden is a four-bedroom detached house in Pluckley, Ashford, Ashford (TN27 0QX). It has a recorded floor area of 192 m² (around 2067 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (September 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include notable views. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 192 m² it's 19.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (238 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £869,000 is 11.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£377/sq ft) was about 48.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £780,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.