Cranbrook Avenue Thundersley, Castle Point

36 addresses across 2 postcodes (SS7), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6300224.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6, E: 9, F: 1).
  • Flood: 8 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Castle Point costs £2,319 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Benfleet, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 64 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Hollies, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 57% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£425,000£425,000£425,000
20231£420,500£420,500£420,500
20221£315,000£315,000£315,000
20211£390,000£390,000£390,000
20203£352,500£350,000£355,000
20192£363,500£347,000£380,000
20181£345,000£345,000£345,000
20174£305,000£282,000£350,000
20162£322,475£315,000£329,950
20151£222,000£222,000£222,000
20141£230,000£230,000£230,000
20122£160,000£124,999£195,000
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Jan 202631 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£425,000
10 Feb 202327 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£420,500
14 Apr 202215 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£315,000
27 Sep 202114 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£390,000
29 Sep 202019 SS7 3YXDetached£352,500
3 Jul 20202 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£350,000
7 Feb 202020 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£355,000
9 Dec 20194 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£347,000
10 Oct 201918 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£380,000
10 Sep 20186 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£345,000
2 Nov 201718 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£350,000
10 Aug 201732 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£285,000
29 Jun 201729 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£282,000
16 Jun 201722 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£325,000
15 Jul 20164 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£315,000
8 Jun 201627 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£329,950
6 Mar 20155 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£222,000
26 Nov 201420 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£230,000
18 May 20121 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£195,000
15 May 20124 SS7 3YXTerraced£124,999
26 May 201119 SS7 3YXDetached£220,000
26 Mar 201027 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£191,000
26 Feb 200721 SS7 3YXDetached£215,000
19 Jan 20075 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£192,000
6 Oct 200634 SS7 3YXDetached£212,000
6 Sep 200615 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£172,500
19 May 20066 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£203,000
31 Mar 20062 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£190,000
26 Mar 200417 SS7 3YXTerraced£167,500
21 Nov 20032 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£175,000
18 Oct 200117 SS7 3YXTerraced£99,500
21 Sep 200122 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£128,000
12 Apr 200134 SS7 3YXDetached£117,500
8 Dec 20005 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£79,000
29 Apr 19999 SS7 3YXDetached£87,000
23 Oct 199828 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£78,000
5 Dec 199715 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£58,500
24 Oct 199721 SS7 3YXDetached£67,500
16 May 199728 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£74,500
29 Nov 19968 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£56,000
28 Nov 19965 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£50,000
30 Aug 199625 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£63,000
19 Jul 19967 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£55,000
24 Nov 19952 SS7 3YXSemi-detached£62,999
6 Nov 19959 SS7 3YXDetached£42,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); Bungalow, detached (1); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 1950-1966 (4); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Castle Point in 2026-27: Band D £2,319 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,546£1,803£2,061£2,319£2,834£3,349£3,864£4,637

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (48% of about 640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 14 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SS7 3YXnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SS7 3YTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 5 / 13 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 36 addresses are between 64 m and 71 m above sea level (67 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
SS7 3YT100%100%100%0%
SS7 3YX100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBenfleet 2.4 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Rayleigh 1.6 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Leigh-On-Sea 1.7 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cranbrook Avenue South Benfleet150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basildon Town Centre9.6 km (6 miles)
Car parksRectory Road Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN43.9 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Hollies1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hadleigh Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalChartwell Private Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationRayleigh Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Benfleet, Thundersley Cashzone390 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,600 m²340 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²380 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Playing Field 2.8 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman Fort at Hadleigh, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman Fort at HadleighScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite on Sandpit HillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Hadleigh Castle: an enclosure castle and an associated dam and millScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West WoodWood570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Adders HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Thundersley GlenValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Oakwood ReservoirLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Hadleigh RayBeach2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Hadleigh MarshWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59400
Under 55323636

4 of the street's 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Castle Point: see them on the Castle Point page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The King John SchoolSecondary11–18510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westwood AcademyPrimary2–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The DeanesSecondary11–16840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
USP College16 plus16–991 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Thundersley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hadleigh Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Hadleigh Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Kingston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
One Takeaway SS7 1RUTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Benfleet Wine SS7 1RURetailers - other130 m1 Major improvement necessary18 Aug 2026
Pink Chilliz SS7 1RUTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Jun 2025
Dragon Chef SS7 1RUTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good1 May 2025
Hadleigh Pharmacy SS7 1QTRetailers - other330 mExempt
Appans Superstore SS7 1QTRetailers - other330 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 2025
Sunny Side Up (Including The Hub) SS7 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m4 Good8 Apr 2025
Vibrance SS7 1SPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good23 Dec 2025
KAUAI Thundersley SS7 3YPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Shell Benfleet Londis Service Station SS7 1SJRetailers - other390 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
King John School SS7 1RASchool/college/university390 m5 Very good13 Feb 2024
Village Indiya/Perinsu/Wingarito SS7 1QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory24 Mar 2026
La Quinta SS7 1QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 2025
G&I Spirit Group Ltd SS7 1QBDistributors/Transporters430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Westwood SF Connect (BP & M&S) SS7 2QPRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2024

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Public order8
Other theft4
Vehicle crime4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime3
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Woodburn Close (11); On or near West Wood Close (8); On or near Woodend Close (5); On or near Parkfields (3); On or near Shipwrights Drive (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 602 residents in 252 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3940
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)57%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Pendlestone · Elizabeth Way · Carlton Drive · Windsor Gardens · Parkfields · Woodburn Close · Angela Mews · West Wood Close · Woodcroft Close · Drake Close · Rayleigh Road · Thurlstone

All the streets in SS7 and across Castle Point.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.