19 Downer Road, Benfleet, SS7 1BQ

19 Downer Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Benfleet (SS7 1BQ). It has a recorded floor area of 184 m² (around 1981 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since March 2012. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£313/sq ft) was about 43.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 184 m² the property is well over the postcode median (110 m² across 30 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2000. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £620,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.