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Get started2 Birch Holt Cottages is a semi-detached house in Layer Marney, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9XG). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2024) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in February 2017 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
2 Birch Holt Cottages has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£348,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
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
45.8dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Single glazing replaced with double or better glazing
Cavity wall insulation installed
More low energy lighting installed
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Median price across the last 2 sales in CO5 9XG: £210,750 (2018–1998).
CO5 9QJ
Smyths Green — bus stop.
Closest school
2.6 km
Birch Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.4dB