Ashford Road, Maidstone
South East
£575,000
Listed on 31/10/2026
Listed on 31/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
4Type
Semi DetachedArea
1451 sqftFeatures
- Garage
- Garden
- Parking
Description
This four-bedroom 1930s semi-detached house is offered with no forward chain and provides spacious accommodation arranged around several reception rooms. The ground floor includes a lounge, dining room with an arched opening to a separate sitting room, and a kitchen/breakfast room, as well as a shower room and an integral garage. Upstairs are four bedrooms, an en-suite shower room and a family bathroom.
The house requires modernisation, with scope to update the existing accommodation and consider reconfiguration, subject to any necessary consents. It occupies a generous plot with a broad frontage, off-road parking and a long rear garden. Mote Park, local schools and amenities are nearby, with Bearsted station and the village green within reach.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.
43out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity
Confidence: MEDIUM
This substantial 1930s semi has a lot to work with: four bedrooms, several reception spaces, a broad driveway, integral garage and an established garden with patio. The photographed interiors offer a medium-scale improvement project, from updating the dated kitchen and wet-room finishes to refreshing decoration and replacing worn or unfinished-looking flooring. The frontage and garden add to the appeal, while the exterior views appear broadly intact, subject to survey.
The price is the main constraint. At £575,000, the asking price is already above the local £/sqf average, and once a mid-to-substantial programme of works is added, the overall outlay looks stretched against local benchmarks for a home of this floor area. That comparison is with current local average value, not a forecast of what the property might be worth after renovation.
Key opportunities
- Modernise the timber-fronted kitchen and dated bathroom and shower-room finishes as part of a coordinated update.
- Refresh the worn or unfinished-looking flooring and older decoration across the photographed interiors.
- Make the most of the multiple reception spaces, generous frontage, garage and established garden when shaping the home for family use.
Key risks
- At this asking price, adding a medium-scale works programme leaves the overall cost stretched against local benchmarks for the floor area; any value created would need to justify that gap.
- The all-in picture is soft after allowing for the asking price and a non-cosmetic works programme — roughly 17% above what comparable floor area achieves locally in current condition; we have not assumed a post-renovation resale figure.
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Transport
Nearest stations
Bearsted Rail Station
0.8 miles
Train · Bearsted
Maidstone East Rail Station
1.8 miles
Train · Maidstone
Maidstone West Rail Station
2.0 miles
Train · Maidstone
Maidstone Barracks Rail Station
2.1 miles
Train · Maidstone
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