3 Hollington Row, Birch Street, Birch, Colchester, CO2 0NL

3 Hollington Row is a two-bedroom detached house in Birch, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0NL). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 561 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (August 2011) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 41). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from August 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

Held since February 1995 — that's 31 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. Today's modelled estimate of £260,000 sits 381.5% above the 1995 sale of £54,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£96/sq ft) was about 39.7% below the postcode norm. At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (148 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.