CO4 5SE
Last sold £248,500 in October 2013
49, Apprentice Drive, Colchester
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Bedrooms
- 5 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,335 sq ft / 124 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
- Elevation
- About 29m — higher than about 30% of homes in Colchester
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Price history in context
- Oct 2013 — £248,500 · +5.7% · 3 pts behind the UK market
- Dec 2008 — £235,000
What this home might be worth today
£416,000
Estimate range £395,000–£436,000
+67.2% since October 2013 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 41 nearby sales within a year · 5-bed (est.) semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- St Helena School 21-min walk crosses a major road
- Braiswick Primary School 8-min walk
- Colchester station 14-min walk
- High Woods 1.6km
- The coast (coastline) 2.7km
- Lake 554m
- Pond 455m
- River Blackwater 22.5km
- River Colne 561m
- Public Park 357m
- Play Area 517m
- Spar 606m
- Apprentice Drive (W-Bound) 63m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 94.5% of premises — not all
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 94.5% of premises — not all
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Colchester, 861m away
- 57 min London
- 111 min Cambridge
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,690 hours a year — sunnier than 80% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 3% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 83 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 52, Apprentice Drive, Colchester £167,000 · 2009
- 32, Turbine Road, Colchester £380,000 · 2025
- 10, Blade Road, Colchester £250,000 · 2008
- 53, Apprentice Drive, Colchester £395,000 · 2023
- 6, Blade Road, Colchester £289,995 · 2008
- 12, Blade Road, Colchester £250,000 · 2008
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