The Maltings, Mersea Road, Abberton, Colchester, CO5 7NR

The Maltings is a three-bedroom detached house in Abberton, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 7NR). It has a recorded floor area of 364 m² (around 3918 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2013) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 66), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from August 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 364 m² the property is well over the postcode median (93 m² across 12 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. Today's modelled estimate of £802,000 sits 316.6% above the 1997 sale of £192,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£49/sq ft) was about 80.6% below the postcode norm. 8 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.