Keatings, Green Lane, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5TR

Keatings is a detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5TR). It has a recorded floor area of 191 m² (around 2056 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2023) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Today's modelled estimate of £781,000 is 18.6% below the 2023 sale of £960,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£467/sq ft) was about 220.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 191 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 bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £960,000 in September 2023.