101 Bridgwater Drive, Westcliff On Sea, SS0 0DX

101 Bridgwater Drive is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Westcliff On Sea (SS0 0DX). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (January 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 28.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£375/sq ft) was about 45.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 104 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2025. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold March 2021 for £420,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.