Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages, Armoury Road, West Bergholt, Colchester, CO6 3JP
About Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages
Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages is a semi-detached house in West Bergholt, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 3JP). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 737 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (April 2011) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Untraded for 31 years, with the last transfer in August 1995. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 68 m² the property is well over the postcode median (52 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £372,000 sits 350.9% above the 1995 sale of £82,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£112/sq ft) was about 52% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
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Valuation
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Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
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Trends
the local market
Energy performance
Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages's EPC is over a decade old — improvements since won't be reflected.
EPC Expired
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Apr 2021
EPC Rating
Planning history
Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages has 2 separate extension applications on the council record.
- Mar 2018AnnexFullIn report
Extension: Single storey
Resubmission of 172655 Single storey extension to form granny annex.
Extension- Documents
- 6 docs on file
- Reference
- 180110
- Dec 2017ExtensionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey
Single storey extension to from granny annex.
- Documents
- 5 docs on file
- Reference
- 172655
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1995).
£372,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£82,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
31 August 1995Most recent
£82,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in CO6 3JP: £175,000 (2025–2001).
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other Armoury Road homes
EPC Rating for Lortay Cottage 2 Armoury Cottages runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
EPC Rating
55 (D)
Street avg 20 (G)
Floor Area
68 m²
Street avg 58 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.1 t/year
Street avg 3.2 t/year
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 3 rooms
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.6 km
A12 Bridge — bus stop.
Closest school
1.1 km
Heathlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, West Bergholt. 9 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
53.0dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
46.9dB