4 Priory Cottages, Hardys Green, Birch, Colchester, CO2 0NX

4 Priory Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Birch, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0NX). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 123 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £505,000 is 29.5% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£295/sq ft) was about 63.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in September 2016.