4 Hobbs Drive, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5RZ

4 Hobbs Drive is a detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Main heating runs on oil.

It hasn't traded since November 2003, a hold of 23 years that's notably long for the area. At 118 m² the property is well over the postcode median (83 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £469,000 sits 123.3% above the 2003 sale of £210,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£165/sq ft) was about 45.6% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2004. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.