Stamps Farm, Layer Breton Heath, Layer Breton, Colchester, CO2 0PW

Stamps Farm is a five-bedroom detached house in Layer Breton, Colchester, Colchester (CO2 0PW). It has a recorded floor area of 229 m² (around 2465 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2018) shows an E (score 47), 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 lpg.

It hasn't traded since April 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 229 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £721,000 sits 75.9% above the 2007 sale of £410,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£166/sq ft) was about 45.6% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 2 refused.