Cranleigh, Dunton Road, Basildon, SS15 4BX

Cranleigh is a five-bedroom detached house in Basildon (SS15 4BX). It has a recorded floor area of 185 m² (around 1991 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2007 onwards. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The latest certificate (November 2013) shows a C (score 80), near the top of the C band. Earlier certificates rated it B (January 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 87). The latest certificate is from November 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 185 m² the property is well over the postcode median (126 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 78% of similar EPCs). Across 2012–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£377/sq ft) was about 25.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Sold June 2021 for £750,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.