The Hawthorns, Swan Street, Chappel, Colchester, CO6 2EE

The Hawthorns is a four-bedroom detached house in Chappel, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 2EE). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2025) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Held since April 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Today's modelled estimate of £692,000 sits 112.9% above the 2002 sale of £325,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£194/sq ft) was about 23.6% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 156 m² it's 25.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (124 m² median across 9 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 78% of similar EPCs).