Seven Stars, Crayes Green, Layer Breton, Colchester, CO2 0PN

Seven Stars is a detached house in Layer Breton, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0PN). It has a recorded floor area of 199 m² (around 2142 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (September 2009) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since December 2010, a hold of 15 years that's notably long for the area. At 199 m² the property is well over the postcode median (146 m² across 8 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. Today's modelled estimate of £552,000 sits 134.9% above the 2010 sale of £235,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£110/sq ft) was about 55.5% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.