Bishopsmere, Rectory Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1DH

Bishopsmere is a four-bedroom detached house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1DH). It has a recorded floor area of 241 m² (around 2594 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot.

At 241 m² the property is well over the postcode median (159 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£482/sq ft) was about 100.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold February 2021 for £1,250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007.