Nelmes, Mill Lane, Birch, Colchester, CO2 0NG

Nelmes is a detached house in Birch, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0NG). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1421 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 132 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 15 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£370/sq ft) was about 137.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £525,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.