3 Willow Cottages, Mersea Road, Langenhoe, Colchester, CO5 7LF

3 Willow Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Langenhoe, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7LF). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (December 2015) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 79 m² it's 17.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (96 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 10 years since the last transfer (July 2016). Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1999–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £268,000 is 34% above the 2016 sale price.