11 Songers Cottages, Dedham Road, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5SQ

11 Songers Cottages is a six-bedroom semi-detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5SQ). It has a recorded floor area of 184 m² (around 1981 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2012) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 184 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£305/sq ft) was about 83.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2021 for £605,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.