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Get started97a is a detached house in Tiptree, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.
At 98 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Conversion of garage to living accommodation. Loft conversion including new dormers to front. Resubmission of 102246.
97a has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£318,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
EPC Rating
67 (D)
Street avg 59 (D)
Floor Area
98 m²
Street avg 99 m²
CO₂ Emissions
3.8 t/year
Street avg 4.7 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.0 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.6dB

Application for a Lawful Use Certificate for the former annexe being used as a separate self contained unit of accommodation in C3 (residential use)
1 more application for this property
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Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 0AB: £525,000 (2025–2022).
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO5 0DQ
Station Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
St Luke's Church of England Controlled Primary School. 6 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.5dB