4 Orchard Close, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1DB

4 Orchard Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1DB). It has a recorded floor area of 163 m² (around 1755 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 163 m² it's 25.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (130 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2008. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£304/sq ft) was about 16% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £532,500 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.