Oxley House, Mersea Road, Abberton, Colchester, CO5 7NR

Oxley House is a six-bedroom detached house in Abberton, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7NR). It has a recorded floor area of 267 m² (around 2874 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 20 years, with the last transfer in October 2006. At 267 m² the property is well over the postcode median (93 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 7 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, partial demolition and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,088,000 is 37.7% above the 2006 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£275/sq ft) was about 127.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.