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Get startedMulberry Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Langenhoe, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7LF). It has a recorded floor area of 211 m² (around 2271 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2017) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory, outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot.
At 211 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 9 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. 8 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £682,000 is 25.1% above the 2021 sale price. Last sale on file: £545,000 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Mulberry Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Mulberry Cottage has been through 6 approved planning applications — a well-evolved property.
Application to discharge conditions 1-8 of planning permission 150091
Latest sale on Mulberry Cottage was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£682,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£545,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
EPC Rating for Mulberry Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,583
Street avg £3,159
Floor Area
211 m²
Street avg 117 m²
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.5dB

Application to discharge condition 3 of application no. 160194
6 more applications for this property
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11 January 2021Most recent
£545,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 7LF: £245,000 (2021–2015).
Leonard House Mersea Road Langenhoe Colchester
Sold May 2021
1 Willow Cottages Mersea Road Langenhoe Colchester
Sold Jul 2020
Dillion House Mersea Road Langenhoe Colchester
Sold Jul 2017
3 Willow Cottages Mersea Road Langenhoe Colchester
Sold Jul 2016
2 Willow Cottages Mersea Road Langenhoe Colchester
Sold Oct 2015
Street avg 2.1 t/year
Years Held
5 years
Street avg 7 years
CO5 7EB
Mersea Rd — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Langenhoe Community Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.8dB
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