SS7 1PS

Last sold £1,650,000 in August 2025

249, Benfleet Road, Benfleet

Property type
Detached
Bedrooms
6 (est.)
Tenure
Freehold
Floor area
3,595 sq ft / 334 sq m
Plot area
about 16,100 sq ft / 1,500 sq m
EPC rating
D

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Price history in context

  • Aug 2025 — £1,650,000 · +175.0% · 25 pts behind the UK market
  • Oct 2001 — £600,000
— sold price – – bank of england base rate £1,650,000 £600,000 2001 2025

The life around it

  • The King John School 705m
  • USP College 1.2km
  • Benfleet station 2.0km
  • Shipwrights Wood 150m
  • The coast (coastline) 1.5km
  • Lake 633m
  • Pond 220m
  • Thames And Medway Canal 17.2km
  • Kersey Marsh Sewer 1.2km
  • Hadleigh Castle 149m
  • King George V Playing Field 261m
  • Shop 2.3km
  • Shipwrights Drive South (Opp) 49m

Broadband

  • Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 50% of premises — not all
  • Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 50% 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, 2.0km 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

Planning

  • In the green belt — new building is tightly restricted.

From planning.data.gov.uk, where the council has published. Not planning advice.

Crime

Below average for England & Wales — 61 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

Location: exact

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Nearby sold homes

Planning activity nearby

  • Permitted Construct front porch, roof and external alterations Jun 2026 source
  • Undecided Construct single storey front and side extensions, two storey rear extension, roof… Mar 2026 source
  • Permitted Construction of single storey rear/side extension, first floor side extension, roof… Apr 2025 source
  • Undecided Construct first floor rear extension Nov 2025 source
  • Rejected Removal of condition 4 (Restricted Permitted Development Rights) of permission 25/0495/FUL Apr 2026 source

Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.

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