Toadshole Cottage, Old Road, Feering, Colchester, CO5 9RN

Toadshole Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Feering, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9RN). It has a recorded floor area of 281 m² (around 3025 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (August 2024) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

It hasn't traded since August 2004, a hold of 22 years that's notably long for the area. At 281 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2001–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 16.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,113,000 sits 82.5% above the 2004 sale of £610,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£202/sq ft) was about 49.4% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.