Thatched Cottage, Gambles Green, Terling, Chelmsford, CM3 2QP

Thatched Cottage is a detached house in Terling, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM3 2QP). It has a recorded floor area of 125 m² (around 1350 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2010) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 45). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

9 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 1 refused, 1 pending. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An active application for tree works is awaiting a decision. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 125 m² it's 18.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2002–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £888,000 is 36.6% above the 2014 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£482/sq ft) was about 17.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 12 years ago, in May 2014.