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Get started14 Fernwood is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Benfleet (SS7 2LT). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £389,000 is 23.5% above the 2021 sale price. Last sale on file: £315,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
Single storey
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£389,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£315,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
On epc rating, 14 Fernwood runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,795
Street avg £4,196
Floor Area
83 m²
Street avg 83 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
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.4dB

Partial demolition of existing store, single story extension and dormer loft extension, with alterations to internal layout and external elevations.
21 June 2021Most recent
£315,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS7 2LT: £370,000 (2024–2021).
CO₂ Emissions
5.9 t/year
Street avg 4.6 t/year
SS7 2BA
Poors Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Hadleigh Infant and Nursery School. 13 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.0dB
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