3 Peace Cottage, Copford Green, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BZ

3 Peace Cottage is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 428 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows a G (score 8), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 21). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (90 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2011, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £207,000 is 32.3% above the 2011 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£366/sq ft) was about 70.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2000.