118 School Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BX
About 118 School Road
118 School Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1BX). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 997 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2010) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 66). The latest certificate is from February 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
6 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 93 m² it's 27.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (127 m² median across 14 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £491,000 is 11.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£441/sq ft) was about 70.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £440,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Already flagged here
Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms1
Energy performance
118 School Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Expired
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 26 Feb 2020
EPC Rating
Planning history
118 School Road has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
- Sept 2022ConditionsIn report
Application to discharge conditions 3, 4, 5 & 6 of listed building consent 212712
- Documents
- 4 docs on file
- Reference
- 221796
- Nov 2021PorchHeritageIn report
Listed building application for replacement porch, windows, fascias, soffits and rainwater goods
ListedExtensionNew Windows- Documents
- 7 docs on file
- Reference
- 212712
We flagged 1 thing worth checking at 118 School Road
Independent checks surfaced things a buyer would want to understand before offering. The report explains each one in full, with the underlying data and what to ask.
- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£491,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 3.2% per year over 10 years.
£440,000
Growth on file: 3.2% per year over 10 years.
Sales timeline
9 March 2021Most recent
£440,000
+39.7%over 10 years8 September 2010
£315,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO6 1BX: £560,000 (2023–2022).
Nearby sales in CO6 1BX
78a, School Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BX
Sold Feb 2023
£785,00097 School Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BX
Sold Dec 2022
£405,00086 School Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BX
Sold May 2022
£600,000The Old School House, School Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BX
Sold Mar 2022
£560,000106 School Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BX
Sold Jan 2022
£560,000
Everything we know about 118 School Road, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other School Road homes
On price per m², 118 School Road stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£4,752
Street avg £3,657
Floor Area
93 m²
Street avg 130 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.0 t/year
Street avg 5.1 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
C of E Primary School — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Go deeper on the local area
The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.9dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
43.4dB