2 Durrant Court, Brook Street, Chelmsford, CM1 1UE

2 Durrant Court is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Chelmsford (CM1 1UE). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2019) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2008. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 62 m² this is the 74th smallest of 77 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 38–82 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B across 77 units on file.

At 62 m² it's 17% larger than the typical home in the postcode (53 m² median across 76 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in March 2016. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1998–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £229,000 is 16.8% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£294/sq ft) was about 20.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.