Layer Breton Hill Layer Breton, Colchester

67 addresses across 4 postcodes (CO2), about 610 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 8901067.

Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £760,000 across 5 sales.
Energy: 39 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 3, D: 17, E: 9, F: 7, G: 1).
Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 D; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 72% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Marks Tey, about 6.6 km (4.1 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pudding Green, is about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 27 to 51 m above sea level.
Noise: 12 of its 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tiptree Medical Centre, about 5.2 km (3.3 miles) away.
People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	5	£760,000	£275,000	£965,000
2024	1	£560,000	£560,000	£560,000
2023	1	£680,000	£680,000	£680,000
2021	3	£400,000	£295,000	£650,000
2020	2	£455,000	£360,000	£550,000
2019	2	£487,500	£315,000	£660,000
2018	4	£490,000	£320,000	£690,000
2015	3	£387,500	£262,500	£595,000
2014	1	£365,000	£365,000	£365,000
2013	2	£546,500	£535,000	£558,000
2012	1	£265,000	£265,000	£265,000
2010	1	£453,000	£453,000	£453,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
11 Nov 2025	PAMPAS CO2 0PR	Detached	£965,000
2 Sep 2025	KATOOMBA CO2 0PR	Detached	£760,000
30 Jul 2025	WESTWOOD HOUSE CO2 0PP	Detached	£775,000
3 Jul 2025	JOYVAN CO2 0PR	Detached	£475,000
31 Mar 2025	DUNROAMIN CO2 0PR	Detached	£275,000
1 May 2024	FARTHINGS CO2 0PP	Detached	£560,000
20 Jan 2023	THE FIRS CO2 0PR	Detached	£680,000
12 Oct 2021	KATOOMBA CO2 0PR	Other	£40,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Mar 2021	GREENSLEEVES CO2 0PP	Detached	£650,000
22 Feb 2021	BRETON HILL BARN CO2 0PT	Detached	£400,000
29 Jan 2021	PAMPAS CO2 0PR	Detached	£295,000
13 Nov 2020	KATOOMBA CO2 0PR	Detached	£360,000
21 Oct 2020	HILLCREST CO2 0PP	Detached	£550,000
28 Oct 2019	HAXELLS CO2 0PR	Detached	£660,000
13 Aug 2019	BRETON HILL BARN CO2 0PT	Detached	£315,000
21 Sep 2018	2, HILL COTTAGES CO2 0PR	Semi-detached	£320,000
20 Aug 2018	HILLCREST CO2 0PP	Detached	£535,000
6 Jul 2018	WESTWOOD HOUSE CO2 0PP	Detached	£690,000
25 May 2018	HILLARY CO2 0PR	Detached	£445,000
2 Nov 2015	MEADOWSIDE CO2 0PP	Detached	£387,500
10 Jul 2015	ROSTAN CO2 0PR	Detached	£595,000
1 Apr 2015	BRETON COTTAGE CO2 0PR	Detached	£262,500
5 Sep 2014	THE OLD MEETING HOUSE CO2 0PR	Detached	£365,000
20 Sep 2013	WESTWOOD HOUSE CO2 0PP	Detached	£558,000
15 Mar 2013	ASH LODGE CO2 0PP	Detached	£535,000
28 Aug 2012	ROSTAN CO2 0PR	Detached	£265,000
30 Nov 2010	2, OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGES CO2 0PP	Semi-detached	£453,000
28 Nov 2008	LAUREL COTTAGE CO2 0PP	Detached	£197,500
1 Oct 2007	HAXELLS CO2 0PR	Detached	£405,000
21 Aug 2007	2, HILL COTTAGES CO2 0PR	Semi-detached	£230,000
20 Jul 2005	GARDEN COTTAGE CO2 0PP	Detached	£245,000
15 Jul 2005	WESTWOOD HOUSE CO2 0PP	Detached	£425,000
9 Nov 2004	KATOOMBA CO2 0PR	Detached	£230,000
9 Jul 2004	2, OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGES CO2 0PP	Semi-detached	£385,000
2 May 2003	2, OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGES CO2 0PP	Semi-detached	£325,000
21 Jun 2002	MEADOWSIDE CO2 0PP	Detached	£225,000
25 Apr 2002	CEDAR LEA CO2 0PR	Semi-detached	£171,500
26 Mar 2002	LAUREL COTTAGE CO2 0PP	Detached	£129,000
23 Jan 2002	HAXELLS CO2 0PR	Detached	£299,500
23 Aug 2000	HILLCREST CO2 0PP	Detached	£241,000
9 Apr 1998	1, OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGES CO2 0PP	Semi-detached	£68,000
7 Jul 1997	HIGH HOPES CO2 0PR	Semi-detached	£87,000
20 Jun 1997	2, OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGES CO2 0PP	Semi-detached	£146,000
10 Apr 1997	GREYSTONES CO2 0PR	Detached	£98,500
15 Jul 1996	HILLCREST CO2 0PP	Detached	£135,000	New build.
30 Apr 1996	1, OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGES CO2 0PP	Semi-detached	£60,000
19 Mar 1996	LAUREL COTTAGE CO2 0PP	Detached	£53,750
30 Nov 1995	FAIRHILL CO2 0PP	Detached	£135,000
31 Oct 1995	PAMPAS CO2 0PR	Detached	£72,000
5 Jul 1995	LAYER BRETON LODGE CO2 0PP	Detached	£440,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

D17

39 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 140 m². Most common: House, detached (19); Bungalow, detached (14); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (11); 1930-1949 (5); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (33); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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 D (30% of about 1,190 homes).

A3%

B3%

C21%

D30%

E29%

F9%

G4%

H1%

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: 3.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: 7 protected trees on or by this street; in a protected area: Land to Rear of, Laurel Cottage, Layer Breton Hill, Layer Breton Colchester CO2 0PP.
Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

LAYER BRETON LODGE, grade II
MANOR COTTAGE, grade II
NUMBER 1 AND OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, grade II

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

3 December 2026 to 7 December 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

23 October 2026 to 29 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
18 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
14 September 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 4 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
CO2 0PR	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 1	unlikely
CO2 0PP	not in 2 or 3	1 / 1 / 2	unlikely
CO2 0PS	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO2 0PT	not in 2 or 3	1 / 1 / 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 67 addresses are between 27 m and 51 m above sea level (43 m on average); the ground rises about 24 m from the lowest to the highest.

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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
CO2 0PP	100%	72%	72%	0%
CO2 0PR	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO2 0PS	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO2 0PT	92%	92%	92%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Marks Tey 474,000 journeys in 2024–25	6.6 km (4.1 miles)
	Kelvedon 600,000 journeys in 2024–25	8.4 km (5.2 miles)
	Colchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25	8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Bus stops	4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Old Meeting House Layer Breton	130 m
Ferry terminal	East Mersea Ferry Landing	13 km (8.1 miles)
EV charging points	InstaVolt Charging Station	4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Southend Airport SEN	29.9 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Stansted Airport STN	41 km (25 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	Tiptree Medical Centre	5.2 km (3.3 miles)
Pharmacies	Tiptree Pharmacy	5.2 km (3.3 miles)
NHS dentists	Tiptree Dental Surgery	5.2 km (3.3 miles)
Hospital	Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (Lexden Hospital)	7.5 km (4.6 miles)
Police station	Copford Police Station	6.1 km (3.8 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	Pudding Green 2,400 m²	1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Play area	Unnamed 2,760 m²	1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Playing field	Unnamed 5,990 m²	1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments	Unnamed 1,790 m²	2.8 km (1.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Layer Breton Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 950 m (0.6 miles) south. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Layer Breton Hall	Listed building, Grade II*	950 m (0.6 miles) south
Layer Marney Tower	Registered park or garden, Grade II	1.8 km (1.1 miles) west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Whitehouse Grove	Wood	930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Craxe's Green	Wood	1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Calves Pasture	Wood	1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
The Bailey Meadow	Wood	2 km (1.3 miles) north
Middle Field Hill	Hill	2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Abberton Reservoir	Lake or reservoir	2.4 km (1.5 miles) east

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	6.6	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.8	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.9	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
60 to 64	3	0
55 to 59	9	0
Under 55	55	67

12 of the street's 67 addresses are 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Birch Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School	Primary	5–11	2 km (1.2 miles)	Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

2 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Criminal damage and arson	1
Violence and sexual offences	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Layer Breton Hill (2).

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: 286 residents in 125 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 street	England
Median age	55	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	27%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	89%	61%
Owned outright	60%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	10%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	55%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	0%	6%
Retired (of adults)	37%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	under 1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	43%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	49%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	3%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	3%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	4%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	51%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	15%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	40%	34%
No qualifications	14%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	9%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	100%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	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: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 3 December 2026 to 7 December 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 23 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, semi-detached (lodged 23 October 2026) found 2 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.

CO2 0PR: 27 addresses
CO2 0PP: 21 addresses of 24 in the postcode
CO2 0PS: 15 addresses
CO2 0PT: 4 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lower Road

All the streets in CO2 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.