21 Gainsborough Drive, Lawford, Manningtree, CO11 2LF

21 Gainsborough Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in Lawford, Manningtree, Manningtree (CO11 2LF). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1066 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£338/sq ft) was about 73% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 99 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £360,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.