5 Cannon Street, Lydd, Romney Marsh, TN29 9AS

5 Cannon Street is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Lydd, Romney Marsh, Romney Marsh (TN29 9AS). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (April 2024) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in November 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£376/sq ft) was about 117.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (79 m² across 10 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £170,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.