Curates Cottage, Hardys Green, Birch, Colchester, CO2 0NX

Curates Cottage is a detached house in Birch, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0NX). It has a recorded floor area of 248 m² (around 2669 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since October 2012. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 248 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£581/sq ft) was about 221.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold October 2022 for £1,550,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.