Grade II-listed early-18th-century country house with mid-19th-century additions
Home 165 · For sale
Luton House
Selling Street, Selling, Faversham, Kent
Independent reading
A Grade II-listed country house of at least 10,245 sq ft, with nine bedrooms and about 20 acres near Selling and Faversham.
The £3m guide equates to about £293 per sq ft on the lower 10,245 sq ft publisher figure, or about £267 on the wider 11,221 sq ft figure. Neither is a valuation: the component-area reconciliation, listed-building condition and consents, optional Luton Bungalow, estate infrastructure and actual running records decide the price case.
Bedrooms9
Publisher-stated area10,245 sq ft
Grounds, approx.20.19 acres
The 30-second view
Three things worth knowing.
Whether the title and heritage pack, signed component area, bungalow boundary and actual multi-building running records support the apparent scale and setting value.
The marketing uses a 10,245–11,221 sq ft range, so the price-density denominator cannot be treated as a single verified principal-house measurement.
Consider the next stepUnderstand the purchase.
Explore costs, work back from your budget, and discover three alternatives.
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Understand the purchase.
Explore costs, work back from your budget, and discover three alternatives.
A clearer purchase / Luton House
The house price is
only the beginning.
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Tax rates checked 26 October 2026. Rules can change; verify for your completion date.
HMRC SDLT ↗Non-resident rules ↗Welsh LTT ↗Scottish LBTT ↗Scottish ADS ↗Another possibility
What else could
this budget buy?
At or below this home’s recorded reference of £3,000,000. Up to three other admitted £2.5m+ homes recorded for sale, ordered by nearest asking price below the ceiling. Location, condition, tax and ownership costs differ. Availability requires confirmation.
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£3,000,000Bespoke contemporary new-build
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Recorded area
- 5,337 sq ft
- Recorded land
- Unknown
- Ownership intensity
- High · editorial
Source checked: 13 Aug 2026
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- Bedrooms
- 5
- Recorded area
- 3,800 sq ft
- Recorded land
- Unknown
- Ownership intensity
- High · editorial
Source checked: 2 Sep 2026
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Woods End, East Horsley
£3,000,000New-build contemporary luxury residence
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Recorded area
- 2,583 sq ft
- Recorded land
- 0.33 acres
- Ownership intensity
- High · editorial
Source checked: 26 Oct 2026
Explore this home ↗How we assess this homeOptional scores, the reasons behind them and the detailed decision tools.+
These are Aveno’s editorial assessments, not valuations, survey findings or guarantees. Design scores describe the selection; data-readiness scores describe how complete the recorded evidence is. Higher scores do not mean fewer purchase risks.
Why this belongs in Aveno
Remarkable is
an evidence test.
Flagship intelligence95remarkability / 100
READY and published under the owner-approved any-era luxury and external-film continuity policies: current original sale, stable statutory identity, measured-area range, complete buyer dossier and exact official publisher-film identity are present; playback is access-unavailable and not claimed.
Luxury and condition23/25
Current publisher presents a substantial equipped country estate; specialist condition evidence remains buyer-side.
Design and character25/25
Statutorily listed early-18th-century fabric with a documented mid-19th-century evolution.
Privacy and setting24/25
About 20 acres close to Selling, subject to title and access verification.
Lifestyle23/25
Nine bedrooms, broad reception programme, grounds and ancillary buildings.
- A substantial listed country house with a long architectural evolution and formal principal accommodation.
- More than 10,000 sq ft and approximately 20 acres at the edge of a well-connected Kent village.
- Nine-bedroom scale, ancillary estate programme and a current exact official property film.
- Current exact named original instruction.
- Historic England statutory identity bridge.
- Explicit area range and acreage.
- Exact publisher-labelled property film.
- Current tenure, EPC and council-tax attributions.
- Title and consent pack.
- Signed component-area reconciliation.
- Bungalow inclusion and actual costs.
- Condition-adjusted comparables.
- Playback access-unavailable and not claimed.
Aveno Decision Engine · live model
What does the evidence
change?
Current buyer actionINVESTIGATE — VERIFY TITLE, HERITAGE, AREA AND ESTATE COSTS
The character, scale and setting are exceptional; component and ownership evidence decides the offer.
Identity confidence100%
Luton House, Selling Street, Selling, Faversham, Kent
The current original instruction, current exact-property distribution and Historic England list entry align the name, street, locality and defining early-C18/mid-C19 identity.
UPRNStill protected
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Premium test
Is the asking premium supported?
Guide midpoint£3,000,000£3,152 / m²
versusLocal evidence benchmarkWithheld0 size-known local references
Subject vs unadjusted evidence—
ReferenceDateAreaPrice / ask£/m²
Resulting referenceWithheldNot a valuation. It exposes how much premium the evidence must justify.
The references are not a surveyor-selected valuation set. Recency, condition, land, architecture and improvements are not fully adjusted. Aveno shows the gap instead of hiding it behind false precision.
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True ownership load
The cost after the keys.
Five-year cost above purchase price£653,750–£1,343,750SDLT + disclosed transaction extras + acquisition checks + modelled running and replacement allowances. Mortgage interest and major defects excluded.
Energy and heatingPlanning range only for a 10,000+ sq ft EPC F house; replace with three years of bills.£15,000–£35,000modelled
Grounds, lake and external estatePlanning range only for about 20 acres; replace with contracts and work logs.£15,000–£40,000modelled
Listed fabric reservePlanning reserve only; replace after conservation-accredited survey and quotations.£30,000–£90,000modelled
Insurance, security and private servicesPlanning range only; replace with current policies and service records.£11,000–£35,000modelled
03
Claim audit
Marketing claim → buyer consequence.
Evidence readiness86/100
Tap the evidence cards as if the seller supplied them. Aveno recalculates the decision—not the beauty.
PROCEED TO VALUATION04
Property memory
The home’s price story.
Direct transaction memory is not yet matched.
This history does not prove fair value. It tells the buyer exactly how much of the current price must be explained by market growth, improvements, specification and scarcity.
Look beyond the listingSale history · heritage · planning evidenceOpen official records
Sources, facts and unanswered questionsRead the evidence ledger, publisher notes and questions to investigate.+
Official evidence map
What is matched.
What is withheld.
Land Registry can establish sale history; EPC can reveal rated floor area and energy assumptions; Planning Data can surface constraints by UPRN or coordinate. A link alone is never counted as intelligence.
connected
Original market evidence
Current £3m exact-property instruction.
Source ↗partialArea
10,245–11,221 sq ft attributed; signed component reconciliation outstanding.
Source ↗partialOfficial film
Exact publisher-labelled film identity; playback not independently checked.
Source ↗connectedStatutory identity
Historic England Grade II list entry 1356612.
Source ↗not matchedTitle and costs
Official title/UPRN, consent pack and actual running records not connected.
Source ↗Published / verified
- The current original instruction offers Luton House, Selling Street, Selling, Faversham ME13 9RQ, at a £3m guide.
- Strutt & Parker records nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, five receptions, 10,245–11,221 sq ft and about 20.19 acres.
- The publisher attributes detached Freehold tenure, Council Tax Band H and EPC F; Historic England confirms the statutory Grade II identity.
- The current exact-property distribution labels the linked publisher-controlled asset 'Luton House - Video'; no broken, removed or mismatched evidence was found.
- Standard-rate SDLT at £3m is £273,750; the additional-property illustration is £423,750. Buyer circumstances and completion-date rules require professional confirmation.
Investigate next
- Obtain title, plan and UPRN; map boundaries, access, lake, services, rights, covenants and every ancillary building.
- Commission a signed component measurement reconciling 10,245 and 11,221 sq ft and separating principal, staff, guest, storage and outbuilding areas.
- Obtain the list description, consent history and Building Control records; commission a conservation-accredited building and services survey.
- Confirm whether Luton Bungalow is excluded from the £3m guide and document any option, separate title, occupancy or access implications.
- Obtain three years of energy, heating, drainage, water, grounds, lake, insurance, security and listed-fabric maintenance costs, plus condition-adjusted completed-sale evidence.
Still unknown
- Official title/UPRN, exact boundaries, access, drainage and service obligations.
- Signed principal and ancillary component areas behind the 10,245–11,221 sq ft range.
- Complete listed-building consent and condition record for the house and ancillary structures.
- Precise commercial and title relationship of Luton Bungalow to the core instruction.
- Actual operating costs and condition-adjusted completed-sale comparables.
- Independent film playback was access-unavailable; exact publisher identity is established and no contrary media evidence was found.
Primary publisher · visual-rights recordStrutt & Parker CanterburyOpen original source ↗Open rights-basis evidence ↗
Strutt & Parker's current CAN250457 instruction was rechecked on 1 November 2026: £3m guide, nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, five receptions, 10,245–11,221 sq ft, 20.19 acres, Freehold, Band H and EPC F. Historic England confirms Luton House, Selling Street, as Grade II list entry 1356612. The current distribution identifies the official publisher film as 'Luton House - Video'. Official publisher film; playback not independently checked. The current original Strutt & Parker instruction exposes a Property tour control, and its current distribution labels the linked publisher-hosted asset 'Luton House - Video'. Aveno links externally and copies no photograph, film frame or footage. Playback was access-unavailable and is not claimed. Original labelled Aveno evidence graphic and original listing link. Third-party material remains the property of its publisher. The publisher does not endorse Aveno’s independent assessment.
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