8 Greate House Farm Road, Layer De La Haye, Colchester, CO2 0LP

8 Greate House Farm Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Layer-De-La-Haye, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0LP). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since August 2014. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 129 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£324/sq ft) was about 51.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £450,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.