7 Lexden Road, West Bergholt, Colchester, CO6 3BT

7 Lexden Road is a five-bedroom detached house in West Bergholt, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 3BT). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 146 m² it's 19.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (181 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £608,000 is 11.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£348/sq ft) was about 61% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £547,000 in August 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.