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Get started2 Acorn Mews is a two-bedroom detached house in West Mersea, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 8SR). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 495 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Colchester HPI: 3.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £331,000 is 27.3% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£525/sq ft) was about 109.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2012. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: February 2020 at £260,000.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
2 Acorn Mews has an approved extension on the planning record.
Retrospective planning application to erect glazed entrance porch
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£331,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 3.2% per year over 14 years.
£260,000
Growth on file: 3.2% per year over 14 years.
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
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.1dB

7 February 2020Most recent
£260,000
+55.7%over 14 years22 November 2005
£167,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 8SR: £195,000 (2024–2007).
CO5 8LZ
Elmwood Drive — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Mersea Island School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.7dB
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