SS7 1BQ
Last sold £59,000 in September 1998
15, Downer Road, Benfleet
- Property type
- Bungalow
- Bedrooms
- 4 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 775 sq ft / 72 sq m
- EPC rating
- E
- Elevation
- About 42m — higher than about 40% of homes in Benfleet
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Price history in context
- Sep 1998 — £59,000
What this home might be worth today
£238,000
Estimate range £226,000–£249,000
+302.7% since September 1998 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well below the local norm at the time
vs 38 nearby sales within a year · 4-bed (est.) bungalow within 1 km
The life around it
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 8-min walk
- Kents Hill Junior School 12-min walk
- Benfleet station 2.3km
- Coombe Wood 185m
- The coast (coastline) 2.3km
- Lake 2.1km
- Pond 1.3km
- Thames And Medway Canal 17.4km
- Benfleet Hall Sewer 1.1km
- Thundersley Oaks Nature Park 800m
- Playing Field 582m
- Twentyfour7 Stop 846m
- Kents Hill Road North (E-Bound) 247m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 98% of premises — not all
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 98% of premises — not all
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Benfleet, 2.3km away
- 37 min London
- 111 min Cambridge
- 119 min Brighton
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,720 hours a year — sunnier than 90% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on a gentle north-west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 5% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 80 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 374, London Road, Benfleet £425,000 · 2019
- 19, Downer Road, Benfleet £620,000 · 2022
- 380, London Road, Benfleet £212,000 · 2003
- 6, Downer Road, Benfleet £222,500 · 2003
- 382, London Road, Benfleet £200,000 · 2013
- 12, Downer Road, Benfleet £310,000 · 2020
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Construct two storey rear and side extension and external alterations Feb 2026 source
- Undecided Non-material amendment of permission 24/0135/FUL to change brickwork to front extension… Feb 2026 source
- Undecided Construct outbuilding for the use of the existing dwelling, ancillary to the existing… Jan 2026 source
- Rejected Construct single storey front extension and two storey rear/side extension May 2025 source
- Conditions Confirmation of compliance with S106 conditions related to application 15/0703/VAR Apr 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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