5 Pease Place, East Hanningfield, Chelmsford, CM3 8UZ

5 Pease Place is a one-bedroom detached house in East Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM3 8UZ). It has a recorded floor area of 45 m² (around 484 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. At 45 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 20 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 42–123 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (October 2016) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump.

At 45 m² it's 22.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (58 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2017–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£351/sq ft) was about 94% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £170,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.