14 Thorpe Road, Hockley, SS5 4EP

14 Thorpe Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Hockley (SS5 4EP). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£441/sq ft) was about 54.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (118 m² across 33 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £375,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.