18 Frere Way, Fingringhoe, Colchester, CO5 7BP

18 Frere Way is a four-bedroom detached house in Fingringhoe, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7BP). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 136 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 15 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£420/sq ft) was about 49.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £615,000 in July 2023.