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Get started6 Alexandra Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in West Mersea, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 8BG). It has a recorded floor area of 206 m² (around 2217 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2019) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). Other recorded features include a balcony and notable views.
Sale prices here have outpaced Colchester HPI: 6.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £890,000 is 11.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£361/sq ft) was about 56.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 206 m² the property is well over the postcode median (150 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2012. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £800,000 in April 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
6 Alexandra Avenue's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
6 Alexandra Avenue has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Proposed single storey rear extension
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£890,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.5% per year over 10 years.
£800,000
Growth on file: 6.5% per year over 10 years.
Floor Area for 6 Alexandra Avenue runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,883
Street avg £3,104
Floor Area
206 m²
Street avg 151 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
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
0.6 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.8dB

7 April 2021Most recent
£800,000
+86.0%over 9 years24 May 2011
£430,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 8BG: £610,000 (2025–2017).
6a Alexandra Avenue West Mersea Colchester
Sold Aug 2025
10 Alexandra Avenue West Mersea Colchester
Sold Jan 2025
2a Alexandra Avenue West Mersea Colchester
Sold Aug 2024
11 Alexandra Avenue West Mersea Colchester
Sold Apr 2022
16 Alexandra Avenue West Mersea Colchester
Sold Oct 2017
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.9 t/year
Street avg 6.0 t/year
CO5 8NE
Barfield Rd — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
Mersea Island School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.9dB
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