1 Breewood Cottages, School Lane, Great Horkesley, Colchester, CO6 4BW

1 Breewood Cottages is a semi-detached house in Great Horkesley, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 4BW). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Today's modelled estimate of £331,000 is 15.7% below the 2022 sale of £392,500, an unusual pattern given regional price growth and worth checking against the EPC condition. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£514/sq ft) was about 80.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 71 m² it sits well below the postcode median (129 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, partial demolition and solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £392,500 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.