1 Barrington Road, Colchester, CO2 7RP

1 Barrington Road is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Colchester (CO2 7RP). It has a recorded floor area of 151 m² (around 1625 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 151 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 18 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£206/sq ft) was about 15% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £335,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.