SS6 9TW

Last sold £460,000 in October 2025

5, Polstead Close, Rayleigh

Property type
Detached
Bedrooms
3 (est.)
Tenure
Freehold
Floor area
969 sq ft / 90 sq m
Plot area
about 2,200 sq ft / 200 sq m
EPC rating
D
Elevation
About 31m — higher than about 30% of homes in Rayleigh

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Price history in context

  • Oct 2025 — £460,000 · +87.8% · 13 pts ahead of the UK market
  • Apr 2011 — £245,000 · +158.6% · 38 pts behind the UK market
  • Jun 1996 — £94,750
— sold price – – bank of england base rate £460,000 £94,750 1996 2025

The life around it

  • Rayleigh Primary School 32-min walk crosses a major road
  • Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Primary School 10-min walk
  • Rayleigh station 24-min walk crosses a major road
  • West Wood 2.7km
  • The coast (coastline) 2.8km
  • Lake 2.5km
  • Pond 731m
  • White House Farm Canal 15.4km
  • Carpenters Arms Brook 986m
  • Sweyne Park 1.1km
  • Playing Field 248m
  • Tesco Express 815m
  • Tendring Avenue (Opp) 245m

Broadband

  • Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more Not available
  • Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more Not available
  • 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 Rayleigh, 1.1km away

  • 51 min London
  • 112 min Cambridge

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

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: no hills shade it. Buildings and trees are not counted.

Crime

Around average for England & Wales — 75 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

Location: exact

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Planning activity nearby

  • Permitted Minor material amendment application (under section 73 of the Town and Country Planning… Dec 2025 source

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

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