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Get started10 West Street is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Rowhedge, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7HW). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a conservatory.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 55 m² it's 19.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (68 m² median across 21 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £241,000 is 23% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£331/sq ft) was about 57.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold July 2022 for £196,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
10 West Street has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Notification for prior approval for a proposed single storey rear extension extending 5.0 metres beyond the rear wall of the original dwelling, with a maximum height of 3.5 metres, and eaves height of 2.5 metres.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£241,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£196,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
On epc rating, 10 West Street runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,564
Street avg £2,970
Floor Area
55 m²
Street avg 73 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Shipyard Corner — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.3dB

7 July 2022Most recent
£196,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 7HW: £250,000 (2024–2023).
CO₂ Emissions
3.4 t/year
Street avg 3.2 t/year
CO5 7SB
Closest school
0.3 km
St Lawrence Church of England Primary School, Rowhedge. 8 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.1dB
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