Hope Cottage, Church Road, Rotherfield, Crowborough, TN6 3LE

Hope Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Rotherfield, Crowborough, Crowborough (TN6 3LE). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £737,000 is 20.8% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£446/sq ft) was about 93.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (97 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On the market in January 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.