The Old Post Office, Halstead Road, Eight Ash Green, Colchester, CO6 3QJ

The Old Post Office is a detached house in Eight Ash Green, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 3QJ). It has a recorded floor area of 32 m² (around 344 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2024 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (June 2018); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 60). Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff.

At 32 m² it's 20% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (40 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£871/sq ft) was about 198.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold April 2019 for £300,000.