56 Kings Road, Westcliff On Sea, SS0 8LT

56 Kings Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Westcliff On Sea (SS0 8LT). It has a recorded floor area of 193 m² (around 2077 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a balcony and notable views.

At 193 m² the property is well over the postcode median (55 m² across 59 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 2003. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£440/sq ft) was about 110.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £915,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.