Kelsham Farm Cottage, Four Oaks Road, Headcorn, Ashford, TN27 9NY
About Kelsham Farm Cottage
Kelsham Farm Cottage is a detached house in Headcorn, Ashford, Ashford (TN27 9NY). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (December 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 100), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
9 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 90 m² it's 25% larger than the typical home in the postcode (72 m² median across 3 EPCs). Across 2018–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 11.7% per year. Sold April 2021 for £660,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
Planning history
A recent planning application at Kelsham Farm Cottage was refused — worth checking the council file.
- Feb 2026HeritageIn report
Listed Building Consent for raising of brickwork and pitched roof to form a pitched and hip roof slated finish all to match existing pitched and hipped roof.
Listed- Documents
- 11 docs on file
- Reference
- 26/500550/LBC
- Feb 2026RenovationFullIn report
Raising of brickwork and pitched roof to form a pitched and hip roof slated finish all to match existing pitched and hipped roof.
- Documents
- 11 docs on file
- Reference
- 26/500549/FULL
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£610,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 11.7% per year over 3 years.
£660,000
Growth on file: 11.7% per year over 3 years.
Sales timeline
20 April 2021Most recent
£660,000
+35.4%over 2 years26 July 2018
£487,500
Median price across the last 3 sales in TN27 9NY: £710,000 (2018–2001).
Versus other Four Oaks Road homes
On epc rating, Kelsham Farm Cottage stands well clear of the street.
EPC Rating
54 (E)
Street avg 40 (E)
Floor Area
90 m²
Street avg 183 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.2 t/year
Street avg 14.8 t/year
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.0 km
Stonestile Road — bus stop.
Closest school
1.6 km
Headcorn Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Go deeper on the local area
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.7dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.2dB







