Turpins Barn, Walton Road, Kirby Le Soken, Frinton On Sea, CO13 0DA

Turpins Barn is a five-bedroom detached house in Kirby-Le-Soken, Frinton-On-Sea, Frinton On Sea (CO13 0DA). It has a recorded floor area of 407 m² (around 4381 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1983-1990. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since September 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 407 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £837,000 sits 174.4% above the 1998 sale of £305,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£70/sq ft) was about 67.2% below the postcode norm.