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Get startedPipers is a detached house in Tiptree, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 0EP). It has a recorded floor area of 103 m² (around 1109 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2024) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Colchester HPI: 6.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£392/sq ft) was about 93.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 103 m² the property is well over the postcode median (40 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It changed hands recently, sold July 2025 for £435,000. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2004. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Single storey side extension and detached garage to side and also new brick wall at front
Latest sale on Pipers was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£459,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.1% per year over 27 years.
£435,000
Growth on file: 6.1% per year over 27 years.
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
47.5dB

18 July 2025Most recent
£435,000
+405.8%over 27 years22 April 1998
£86,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 0EP: £138,000 (2021–2007).
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CO5 0BW
Colchester Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
Thurstable School. 6 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.3dB
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