Brick House, School Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TH

Brick House is a detached house in Messing, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9TH). It has a recorded floor area of 258 m² (around 2777 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72). Main heating runs on oil.

Held since April 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 258 m² the property is well over the postcode median (151 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £903,000 sits 363.1% above the 1996 sale of £195,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£70/sq ft) was about 46.5% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2008. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.