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Get started1 Briar Close is a semi-detached house in Hockley (SS5 4HD). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2016) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
It hasn't traded since June 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £422,000 sits 434.2% above the 1997 sale of £79,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£61/sq ft) was about 69.8% below the postcode norm.
1 Briar Close sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Apr 2026
1 Briar Close's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1997).
£422,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£79,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Price per m² for 1 Briar Close lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£653
Street avg £2,945
Floor Area
121 m²
Street avg 103 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 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
47.8dB

24 June 1997Most recent
£79,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS5 4HD: £390,000 (2025–2018).
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.0 t/year
Street avg 4.7 t/year
SS5 4NT
Hillside Avenue — bus stop.
Closest school
0.8 km
Lift Westerings. 14 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.6dB
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