Seven Gables, Cross Field Way, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5SF

Seven Gables is a five-bedroom detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5SF). It has a recorded floor area of 271 m² (around 2917 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2025) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 57). Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since May 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 271 m² the property is well over the postcode median (120 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 1995–2002, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £782,000 sits 138.8% above the 2002 sale of £327,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£112/sq ft) was about 36.3% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: a garage conversion approved in 2022. Past consents include a garage conversion and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.