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Get started6 Poplar Cottages is a semi-detached house in Layer Marney, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9XP). 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 (March 2025) shows a C (score 74). When first surveyed in July 2011 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and main heating dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 100), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
6 Poplar Cottages has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£324,000
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.
6 Poplar Cottages outperforms the street on habitable rooms by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
74 (C)
Street avg 65 (D)
Floor Area
85 m²
Street avg 76 m²
CO₂ Emissions
2.0 t/year
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
0.4 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.9dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Hot water efficiency improved
More low energy lighting installed
Mechanical ventilation installed
Solar PV panels (40 kWp) installed
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Street avg 2.5 t/year
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO5 9UJ
Smyths Green — bus stop.
Closest school
2.7 km
Messing Primary School. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.4dB