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Get started2 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 28 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 £441,000 sits 320% 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.
2 Gorse Lane sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Feb 2019
Extension: Side of property
Side extension and garage conversion with finished flat roof height 2700m from DPC(resubmision 120940).
2 Gorse Lane's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1997).
£441,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£105,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Price per m² for 2 Gorse Lane lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£826
Street avg £3,751
Floor Area
127 m²
Street avg 99 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
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
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.8dB

Extension: Side of property
Side extension and garage conversion
17 December 1997Most recent
£105,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 0AH: £386,500 (2025–2023).
CO₂ Emissions
7.7 t/year
Street avg 4.7 t/year
CO5 0BP
Anchor Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.5 km
St Luke's Church of England Controlled Primary School. 6 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.5dB
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