The Old Village Stores, Straight Road, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5QW

The Old Village Stores is a semi-detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5QW). It has a recorded floor area of 137 m² (around 1470 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2011) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 35). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 137 m² it's 18.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (116 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £419,000 sits 67.6% above the 2011 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£170/sq ft) was about 37.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sold in June 2011, so it's been off the market for around 15 years.