Charles House, Flat 18, St Peters Street, Colchester, CO1 1BY

Charles House is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Colchester (CO1 1BY). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2021) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in May 2009 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good, lighting went from Average to Very Good and main heating went from Poor to Average. Main heating runs on electricity. At 80 m² this is the 31st smallest of 35 units on EPC record in Charles House, where floor areas span 52–94 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (81 versus a worst of 39).

At 80 m² it's 19.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (67 m² median across 34 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.1% per year. Last sale on file: £162,000 in October 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.