2 Spring Gardens Cottages, Spring Gardens Road, Chappel, Colchester, CO6 2DP

2 Spring Gardens Cottages is a mid-terrace house in Chappel, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 2DP). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2024) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in March 1997. 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 £244,000 sits 383.2% above the 1997 sale of £50,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£73/sq ft) was about 46.1% below the postcode norm. At 64 m² it sits well below the postcode median (123 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.