The Rigg, School Road, Langham, Colchester, CO4 5PB

The Rigg is a detached house in Langham, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5PB). It has a recorded floor area of 293 m² (around 3154 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 64). Main heating runs on oil.

Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,269,000 is 14% below the 2022 sale of £1,475,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£468/sq ft) was about 58.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 293 m² the property is well over the postcode median (97 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £1,475,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.