2 Nightingale Farm Cottage, Brickhouse Road, Colne Engaine, Colchester, CO6 2HJ

2 Nightingale Farm Cottage is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Colne Engaine, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 2HJ). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The property has solar panels and underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Main heating runs on oil.

At 110 m² it sits well below the postcode median (195 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £590,000 is 25.5% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£397/sq ft) was about 39.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £470,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.