8 Thorpe Road, Hockley, SS5 4EP

8 Thorpe Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Hockley (SS5 4EP). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 69 m² it sits well below the postcode median (118 m² across 33 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. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £341,000 is 29.4% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£355/sq ft) was about 27.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sold in November 2016, so it's been off the market for around 10 years.