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Get started17 Hilltop Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Hullbridge, Hockley, Hockley (SS5 6BL). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include a conservatory. The latest certificate (December 2024) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75).
Held since January 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £540,000 sits 369.8% above the 1998 sale of £114,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£79/sq ft) was about 65.5% below the postcode norm. At 136 m² it's 23.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (110 m² median across 14 EPCs).
17 Hilltop Avenue's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1998).
£540,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£114,950
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
17 Hilltop Avenue outperforms the street on years held by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£845
Street avg £2,904
Floor Area
136 m²
Street avg 134 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 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
45.8dB

28 January 1998Most recent
£114,950
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS5 6BL: £550,000 (2025–2021).
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
3.4 t/year
Street avg 5.3 t/year
SS5 6LT
Crouch Avenue — bus stop.
Closest school
1.0 km
Riverside Primary School. 10 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.0dB
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