Last Cottage, Newbridge Road, Tiptree, Colchester, CO5 0JA

Last Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Tiptree, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 0JA). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£451/sq ft) was about 127.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 105 m² it's 23.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (138 m² median across 9 EPCs). Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £510,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.