Walnut Tree Cottage, Workhouse Hill, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5TT

Walnut Tree Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5TT). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 738 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 69 m² it sits well below the postcode median (182 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £396,000 is 15.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£466/sq ft) was about 97.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £344,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.