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Get started2 Gennep Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Canvey Island (SS8 8DB). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2017) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
At 136 m² the property is well over the postcode median (67 m² across 11 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. Today's modelled estimate of £483,000 sits 53.3% above the 2017 sale of £315,000. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in May 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.
2 Gennep Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Flat roof rear dormer and single storey flat roof side extension
2 Gennep Road valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£483,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£315,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
2 Gennep Road outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,316
Street avg £3,701
Floor Area
136 m²
Street avg 69 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.0dB

31 May 2017Most recent
£315,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SS8 8DB: £315,000 (2024–2021).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 3.4 t/year
SS8 8JY
Playing Fields — bus stop.
Closest school
0.7 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Nursery. 12 schools nearby.
Flood risk
Very low
From the Environment Agency.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.2dB
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