Primrose Cottage, The Chase, New Road, Mistley, Manningtree, CO11 2AF

Primrose Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Mistley, Manningtree, Manningtree (CO11 2AF). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump.

At 92 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £471,000 is 12.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£424/sq ft) was about 52.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £420,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.