Hillside Cottage, Green Lane, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5TR

Hillside Cottage is a detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5TR). It has a recorded floor area of 248 m² (around 2669 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2017) returns a high B (score 86), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in August 2014 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good and window efficiency went from Good to Very Good. Main heating runs on oil.

At 248 m² the property is well over the postcode median (102 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 2014–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 21.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £946,000 is 17.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£301/sq ft) was about 17.5% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £802,500 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.