Orchard View, Spring Gardens Road, Chappel, Colchester, CO6 2DP

Orchard View is a four-bedroom detached house in Chappel, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 2DP). It has a recorded floor area of 168 m² (around 1808 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2022. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in January 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 168 m² the property is well over the postcode median (64 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £544,000 sits 353.3% above the 1998 sale of £120,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£66/sq ft) was about 51.2% below the postcode norm.