Lances, Church Street, Kelvedon, Colchester, CO5 9AH

Lances is a detached house in Kelvedon, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9AH). It has a recorded floor area of 227 m² (around 2443 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2022) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since October 2021. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 68), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 227 m² the property is well over the postcode median (153 m² across 11 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£430/sq ft) was about 115.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £1,050,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.