SS7 1BQ
Last sold £355,000 in March 2017
55a, Downer Road, Benfleet
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Bedrooms
- 5 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,313 sq ft / 122 sq m
- EPC rating
- D
- Elevation
- About 45m — higher than about 40% of homes in Benfleet
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Price history in context
- Mar 2017 — £355,000 · +42.0% · 16 pts ahead of the UK market
- Sep 2012 — £250,000
What this home might be worth today
£483,000
Estimate range £459,000–£508,000
+36.2% since March 2017 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 82 nearby sales within a year · 5-bed (est.) semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 227m
- Kents Hill Junior School 358m
- Benfleet station 2.1km
- Coombe Wood 309m
- The coast (coastline) 2.1km
- Lake 2.2km
- Pond 1.4km
- Thames And Medway Canal 17.2km
- Benfleet Hall Sewer 906m
- Thundersley Oaks Nature Park 979m
- Playing Field 458m
- Twentyfour7 Stop 887m
- Bowers Road (N-Bound) 241m
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, 2.1km 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
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 6% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 73 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 55, Downer Road, Benfleet £82,500 · 1999
- 57, Downer Road, Benfleet £240,000 · 2002
- 53, Downer Road, Benfleet £430,000 · 2022
- 49, Downer Road, Benfleet £265,000 · 2012
- 52, Downer Road, Benfleet £350,000 · 2022
- 54, Downer Road, Benfleet £370,000 · 2024
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Fell dead tree (TPO 38/2018) Jan 2026 source
- Permitted Erection of front and rear dormers, relocation of entrance door and external alterations… May 2025 source
- Undecided Construct outbuilding for the use of the existing dwelling, ancillary to the existing… Jan 2026 source
- Undecided Non-material amendment of permission 24/0135/FUL to change brickwork to front extension… Feb 2026 source
- Permitted Construct two storey rear and side extension and external alterations Feb 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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