Abberton Copse, Layer Road, Abberton, Colchester, CO5 7NL

Abberton Copse is a four-bedroom detached house in Abberton, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7NL). It has a recorded floor area of 179 m² (around 1927 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2019) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 179 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 31 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £806,000 is 19.4% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£350/sq ft) was about 68.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £675,000 in July 2020.