Abberton Lodge Cottage, Layer Road, Abberton, Colchester, CO5 7NH

Abberton Lodge Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Abberton, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7NH). It has a recorded floor area of 201 m² (around 2164 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows a C (score 75), near the top of the C band. The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since June 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83).

At 201 m² the property is well over the postcode median (122 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £900,000 in December 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£416/sq ft) was about 81.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.