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Get started6 Osborne Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Messing, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a conservatory.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2025. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £331,000 is 24.9% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£347/sq ft) was about 52.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2020 at £265,000.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
Extension: Side and rear of property
Demolition of conservatory and domestic garage. Construction of 2 storey side and rear extensions. Construction of front porch and rear single storey extension.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£331,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£265,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
On epc rating, 6 Osborne Cottages runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,732
Street avg £2,448
Floor Area
71 m²
Street avg 76 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 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
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.2dB

21 September 2020Most recent
£265,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO5 9TJ: £335,000 (2023–2010).
1 Osborne Cottages School Road Messing Colchester
Sold Oct 2023
9 Osborne Cottages School Road Messing Colchester
Sold Mar 2018
11 Osborne Cottages School Road Messing Colchester
Sold Jun 2010
5 Osborne Cottages School Road Messing Colchester
Sold Jan 2007
10 Osborne Cottages School Road Messing Colchester
Sold Oct 2000
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.1 t/year
Street avg 3.0 t/year
CO5 9HL
The Street — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Messing Primary School. 6 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.5dB
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