14 High Road, Layer De La Haye, Colchester, CO2 0DS

14 High Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Layer-De-La-Haye, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0DS). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since April 2017. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80).

At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (125 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2017–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £754,000 is 10.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£370/sq ft) was about 68.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £685,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.