New Cottage, Messing Park, Messing, Colchester CO5 9TD

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

This certificate lists no outstanding recommendations.

Running costs

£1,059
per year at grade D
£821
per year at grade A

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £752 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 June 2016£420,000

Estimated today: £542,524 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Messing Park: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Messing Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Milldene Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Thurstable SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Honywood SchoolSecondary3.9 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary4.7 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

7.7
crimes a month
77
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021643, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.