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Get started3 Queens Head Cottages is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Messing, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9TT). It has a recorded floor area of 167 m² (around 1793 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (June 2009) shows an F (score 29), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 43). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from June 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced Colchester HPI: 4.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £642,000 sits 64.6% above the 2012 sale of £390,000. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. 14 years since the last transfer (April 2012).
3 Queens Head Cottages's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 25 Jun 2019
Proposed internal alterations and alterations to windows and doors externally to side and rear of property
£642,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 4.5% per year over 13 years.
£390,000
Growth on file: 4.5% per year over 13 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
44.6dB

Proposed internal alterations and alterations to windows and doors externally to side and rear of property
19 April 2012Most recent
£390,000
+11.4%over 9 years28 February 2003
£350,000
+55.6%over 3 years15 October 1999
£225,000
Median price across the last 3 sales in CO5 9TT: £165,000 (2004–1996).
CO5 9PQ
The Street — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
Messing Primary School. 6 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.2dB
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