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Get started170a is a one-bedroom detached house in Hawkwell, Hockley, Hockley (SS5 4EH). It has a recorded floor area of 53 m² (around 570 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.
At 53 m² it sits well below the postcode median (119 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £352,000 is 23.5% above the 2024 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£500/sq ft) was about 202.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £285,000 in May 2024.
170a sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
170a has an approved single-storey extension on the planning record.
Extension: Single storey
Construct first floor extension, single storey rear extension, single storey front/side extension and new vehicular crossover to new driveway.
170a valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£352,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£285,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
170a outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,377
Street avg £3,164
Floor Area
53 m²
Street avg 123 m²
Habitable Rooms
2 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.9dB

Extension: Single storey
Application for prior approval of a proposed enlargement of a dwellinghouse by construction of an additional storey under Class AA, Part 1 of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 (as amended)
24 May 2024Most recent
£285,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS5 4EH: £375,000 (2025–2021).
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
9.3 t/year
Street avg 4.7 t/year
SS5 4XF
Hillside Avenue — bus stop.
Closest school
0.7 km
Lift Westerings. 14 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.6dB
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