Exeter Close Great Horkesley, Colchester

27 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO6), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8900656.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £282,000 across 6 sales.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 3, E: 10, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Colchester, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 49 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mill Road Surgery, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20216£282,000£265,000£320,000
20203£275,000£260,000£335,000
20181£305,000£305,000£305,000
20171£300,000£300,000£300,000
20151£210,000£210,000£210,000
20132£178,000£170,000£186,000
20062£193,475£175,950£211,000
20041£174,995£174,995£174,995
20034£145,495£131,000£173,000
20022£98,000£98,000£98,000
20011£83,500£83,500£83,500
19992£71,250£69,000£73,500
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Nov 202114 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£290,000
25 Aug 202119 CO6 4HNTerraced£274,000
30 Jun 202115 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£270,000
26 Apr 20215 CO6 4HNTerraced£291,000
23 Mar 202111 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£265,000
22 Feb 202127 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£320,000
12 Oct 20202 CO6 4HNTerraced£275,000
17 Jul 202022 CO6 4HNDetached£335,000
7 Feb 202021 CO6 4HNTerraced£260,000
25 May 201820 CO6 4HNDetached£305,000
27 Jan 201729 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£300,000
28 Aug 20152 CO6 4HNTerraced£210,000
6 Dec 20135 CO6 4HNTerraced£186,000
30 Apr 201319 CO6 4HNTerraced£170,000
1 Aug 200629 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£175,950
24 Feb 200622 CO6 4HNDetached£211,000
25 Jun 200429 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£174,995
15 Oct 200310 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£150,995
20 Jun 20038 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£139,995
16 May 20031 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£131,000
8 Jan 200318 CO6 4HNDetached£173,000
22 Mar 200221 CO6 4HNTerraced£98,000
15 Feb 200217 CO6 4HNTerraced£98,000
4 May 200119 CO6 4HNTerraced£83,500
10 Sep 19998 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£73,500
19 Feb 199929 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£69,000
26 May 199810 CO6 4HNSemi-detached£65,000
12 Aug 199624 CO6 4HNDetached£73,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); House, detached (3); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (10); 1950-1966 (5); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Colchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,283 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,029£2,283£2,790£3,297£3,805£4,566

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 800 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 4 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 October 2026 to 26 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Remedial works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 2 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 13 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 9 August 2026 to 12 August 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CO6 4HNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CO6 4EEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 49 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CO6 4EE100%100%100%0%
CO6 4HN100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsColchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Colchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Exeter Close Great Horkesley90 m
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksColchester Park and Ride1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN41.6 km (26 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN44.5 km (28 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesMill Road Surgery2 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesNayland Road Pharmacy1.9 km (1.2 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery90 m
HospitalHospital Liaison Team2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationEssex Police4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machinesBP - Colchester SF Connect, Colchester bypass Cashzone1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.4 ha330 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²360 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 9.6 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.0 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Small multivallate hillfort known as Pitchbury Ramparts, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Small multivallate hillfort known as Pitchbury RampartsScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Aldercar WoodWood580 m (0.4 miles) north-west
America HillHill640 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Horkesley PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Pitchbury WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Frost's GroveWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
West House WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 552627

1 of the street's 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Colchester: see them on the Colchester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11260 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Camulos AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Myland Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bishop William Ward School CO6 4ATSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Tiddlywinks Pre School CO6 4ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Burglary4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime2
Anti-social behaviour1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ramparts Close (8); On or near Grantham Road (8); On or near Nayland Road (6); On or near Malvern Way (3); On or near Exeter Close (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 374 residents in 122 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Remedial works, 23 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CO6 4HN: 26 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • CO6 4EE: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Millers Close · Keelers Way · Sandon Close · Manor Close · Grange Road · Ramparts Close · Malvern Way · Brick Kiln Lane · Helm Close · David May Gardens · Grantham Road · Chilton Close

All the streets in CO6 and across Colchester.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.