3 The Dingle, Ballast Quay Road, Fingringhoe, Colchester, CO5 7DB

3 The Dingle is a semi-detached house in Fingringhoe, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7DB). It has a recorded floor area of 153 m² (around 1641 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 47). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 153 m² it's 16.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (183 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £448,000 sits 57.2% above the 2009 sale of £285,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£174/sq ft) was about 35.4% below the postcode norm.