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Get started3 Agricultural Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in West Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM2 8UN). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced Chelmsford HPI: 4.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. At 120 m² it's 18.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (101 m² median across 5 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £630,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2009.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Rear dormer window.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£654,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 4.8% per year over 14 years.
£630,000
Growth on file: 4.8% per year over 14 years.
EPC Rating for 3 Agricultural Cottages lags the street by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
53 (E)
Street avg 57 (D)
Floor Area
120 m²
Street avg 146 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.7 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
12/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.5 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.6dB

22 July 2022Most recent
£630,000
+68.0%over 9 years27 June 2013
£375,000
+13.6%over 4 years21 November 2008
£330,000
Median price across the last 4 sales in CM2 8UN: £182,625 (2016–1995).
Hawthorns Church Road West Hanningfield Chelmsford
Sold Jul 2016
1 Agricultural Cottages Church Road West Hanningfield Chelmsford
Sold Apr 2012
Drummers Cottage Church Road West Hanningfield Chelmsford
Sold Aug 1996
Hophedges Church Road West Hanningfield Chelmsford
Sold Jun 1995
Street avg 7.9 t/year
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CM2 8QW
Church — bus stop.
Closest school
1.0 km
St Peter's Church of England Primary Academy, West Hanningfield. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.7dB
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