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Get startedHipseys Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Steeple, Southminster, Southminster (CM0 7LF). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£372/sq ft) was about 100.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. Most recent transfer: September 2023 at £360,000.
Hipseys Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A recent planning application at Hipseys Cottage was refused — worth checking the council file.
Construction of a new dwellinghouse
Price for Hipseys Cottage has grown more than fourfold since the 1997 starting point.
£358,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.1% per year over 26 years.
£360,000
Growth on file: 6.1% per year over 26 years.
Price per m² for Hipseys Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,000
Street avg £2,464
Floor Area
90 m²
Street avg 90 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.6dB

Construction of a new two bedroom self-contained dwelling in the curtilage of an existing listed dwellinghouse
4 September 2023Most recent
£360,000
+383.2%over 26 years19 March 1997
£74,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in CM0 7LF: £340,000 (2023–2017).
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Brook House The Street Steeple Southminster
Sold Sept 2018
Penn Croft The Street Steeple Southminster
Sold Feb 2017
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.2 t/year
Street avg 5.9 t/year
CM0 7HL
The Star — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.7dB
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