20 Cambridge Road, Colchester, CO3 3NS

20 Cambridge Road is a six-bedroom detached house in Colchester (CO3 3NS). It has a recorded floor area of 291 m² (around 3132 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2017) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump.

At 291 m² the property is well over the postcode median (154 m² across 37 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£372/sq ft) was about 50.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £1,165,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.