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Get started203 Cumberland Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Benfleet (SS7 1DX). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (April 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£474/sq ft) was about 91.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 108 m² the property is well over the postcode median (66 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £550,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
203 Cumberland Avenue 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This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 09 Mar 2025
Latest sale on 203 Cumberland Avenue was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£544,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.6% per year over 8 years.
£550,500
Growth on file: 6.6% per year over 8 years.
EPC Rating for 203 Cumberland Avenue lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,097
Street avg £4,078
Floor Area
108 m²
Street avg 80 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.1dB

19 August 2022Most recent
£550,500
+61.9%over 7 years28 January 2015
£340,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS7 1DX: £355,000 (2025–2022).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.2 t/year
Street avg 3.9 t/year
SS7 1NU
Cumberland Avenue — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
South Benfleet Primary School. 16 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.0dB
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