1 School Farm Cottages, School Road, Langham, Colchester, CO4 5PB

1 School Farm Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Langham, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5PB). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include notable views and a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (May 2015) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on wood logs. The latest certificate is from May 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since September 2003, a hold of 23 years that's notably long for the area. At 87 m² it's 15.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (103 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £288,000 sits 130.4% above the 2003 sale of £125,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£133/sq ft) was about 55% below the postcode norm.