5 Chapel Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7JS

5 Chapel Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Rowhedge, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7JS). It has a recorded floor area of 53 m² (around 567 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (July 2009) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). The latest certificate is from July 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 53 m² it's 29.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (75 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2010–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £223,000 is 24.9% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£315/sq ft) was about 70.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 9 years ago, in March 2017.