85 Grove Road, Benfleet, SS7 1JH
About 85 Grove Road
85 Grove Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Benfleet (SS7 1JH). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2017) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.
2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2019–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£447/sq ft) was about 99% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 81 m² it's 25.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (109 m² median across 17 EPCs). Sold February 2022 for £390,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms2
Outside
- Private gardenrear
- GarageYes
Building
- Heating systemgas_fired
- Extension potentialPossible
Energy performance
EPC Rating
Planning history
- Dec 2022Garage ConversionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Front of property
Garage conversion to habitable rooms and single storey front extension including relocation of front door
- Council
- ELECTRONIC FILE ONLY
Extension- Documents
- 13 docs on file
- Reference
- 22/0509/FUL
- Jan 2020ExtensionFullIn report
Ground and first floor alterations and extensions to semi-detached dwelling to create additional living space
- Documents
- 6 docs on file
- Reference
- 19/0891/FUL
What's in 85 Grove Road, Benfleet, SS7 1JH's planning history?
Refusals, disputes and full decisions on this property and nearby, in the report.
Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£420,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 12.7% per year over 3 years.
£390,000
Growth on file: 12.7% per year over 3 years.
Sales timeline
14 February 2022Most recent
£390,000
+36.8%over 2 years4 July 2019
£285,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS7 1JH: £463,750 (2024–2021).
Everything we know about 85 Grove Road, in one report
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Versus other Grove Road homes
85 Grove Road outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,815
Street avg £3,570
Floor Area
81 m²
Street avg 115 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.4 t/year
Street avg 5.2 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
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
0.3 km
High Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
South Benfleet Primary School. 18 schools nearby.
Go deeper on the local area
The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.9dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.4dB