23 Chapel Road, West Bergholt, Colchester, CO6 3JB

23 Chapel Road is a three-bedroom detached house in West Bergholt, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 3JB). It has a recorded floor area of 158 m² (around 1703 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2009) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 67). The latest certificate is from January 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 17 years, with the last transfer in March 2009. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 158 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £436,000 sits 61.5% above the 2009 sale of £270,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£159/sq ft) was about 27.2% below the postcode norm.