2 Gorse Lane, Tiptree, Colchester, CO5 0AH

2 Gorse Lane is a four-bedroom detached house in Tiptree, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 0AH). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1368 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2009) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (93 m² across 13 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. Today's modelled estimate of £451,000 sits 329.5% above the 1997 sale of £105,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£77/sq ft) was about 71.1% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.