The Oaks, Southend Road, Hockley, SS5 4PZ

The Oaks is a four-bedroom detached house in Hockley (SS5 4PZ). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1983-1990. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a C (score 72). The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81).

5 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused, 3 pending. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An active application for tree works is awaiting a decision. At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (65 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£452/sq ft) was about 84% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £837,526 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.