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Get started8 Abbey Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hullbridge, Hockley, Hockley (SS5 6DL). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2025) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). This certificate was lodged in the last six months, so the rating reflects current condition. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
Held since March 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 £430,000 sits 475.6% above the 1998 sale of £74,700. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£79/sq ft) was about 71.5% below the postcode norm.
The EPC has just been inspected, so the rating reflects current condition.
8 Abbey Close's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1998).
£430,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£74,700
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Price per m² for 8 Abbey Close lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£849
Street avg £3,579
Floor Area
88 m²
Street avg 81 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 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
0.1 km
High Elms Road — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.8dB

6 March 1998Most recent
£74,700
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS5 6DL: £310,000 (2023–2017).
CO₂ Emissions
2.7 t/year
Street avg 4.1 t/year
SS5 6JD
Closest school
0.8 km
Riverside Primary School. 9 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.5dB
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