3 Brick House Cottages, Brick House Lane, Boreham, Chelmsford, CM3 3JQ

3 Brick House Cottages is a four-bedroom detached house in Boreham, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM3 3JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2025) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since April 2014. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75). Main heating runs on oil. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 113 m² the property is well over the postcode median (65 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £505,000 is 12.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£370/sq ft) was about 26.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Sold June 2021 for £450,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.