The Willow, Rectory Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1DH

The Willow is a detached house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1DH). It has a recorded floor area of 32 m² (around 344 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since October 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £274,000 sits 356.7% above the 1995 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£174/sq ft) was about 27.8% below the postcode norm. At 32 m² it sits well below the postcode median (160 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.