Vane Court Bungalow, Smarden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8JT

Vane Court Bungalow is a three-bedroom detached house in Biddenden, Ashford, Ashford (TN27 8JT). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 918 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2009) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 45). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 85 m² it sits well below the postcode median (165 m² across 7 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. Today's modelled estimate of £486,000 sits 288.8% above the 1999 sale of £125,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£136/sq ft) was about 52.9% below the postcode norm.