Published prices
Under the SRA Transparency Rules, firms offering residential conveyancing, probate and certain other services must publish their prices for that work. Sparling Benham & Brough publishes these 9 prices on its own website. The figures below are copied as the firm prints them. For your own matter, ask the firm for a written quote that includes disbursements.
What the firm offers:ConveyancingProbateAs listed on the firm's own website, read 16 October 2026. The areas of law further down are what it reported to the SRA.
| Service | Price | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Probate - full administration, hourly rates (hourly rates vary with the fee earner and expertise required)[1] | £225 to £395 per hour | + VAT |
| Probate - applying for the grant, collecting and distributing the assets, estimated total legal charges[1] | £2,250 to £15,800 | + VAT |
| Item | Fee | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Lay executors | 1% of the value of the gross Estate and 0.5% of any property in the Estate | VAT not stated |
| Item | Fee | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Professional executors | 1 ½% of the value of the gross Estate and 0.75% of any property in the Estate | VAT not stated |
| Service | Price | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Residential conveyancing - freehold purchase, legal fee (illustrative example)[2] | £950.00 | + VAT |
| Conveyancing - same day bank transfer[2] | £48.00 | inc VAT |
| Residential conveyancing - leasehold purchase, legal fee (example based on a purchase price of £200,000)[2] | £1200.00 | + VAT |
| Residential conveyancing - freehold sale, legal fees (example based on a sale price of £250,000.00)[2] | £850.00 | + VAT |
| Residential conveyancing - leasehold sale, legal costs (example based on a sale price of £250,000.00)[2] | £1000.00 | + VAT |
From the firm's published price information at these pages, read 16 October 2026:
Key facts
- Authorisation
- Recognised body
- Organisation type
- Recognised body, authorised
- Constitution
- Partnership
- Practising offices
- 3 (2 branches)
- Branch towns
- Frinton-On-Sea, Manningtree
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 10: Litigation, Personal Injury, Wills and trusts, Probate, Children, Family, ADR, Non-litigation, Residential property, Commercial property
- Trading names
- Sparlings Solicitors
- SRA firms in Colchester
- 35 (22 residential property)
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | 3 West Stockwell Street, Colchester, CO1 1HQDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Colchester | 01206 733733 |
| Branch | 62a Connaught Avenue, Frinton-On-Sea, CO13 9QHDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Tendring | 01255 679222 |
| Branch | 13 High Street, Manningtree, CO11 1AQDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Tendring | 01206 392201 |
Areas of law reported to the SRA
Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.
Because Sparling Benham & Brough reports residential property work, it must publish its conveyancing price, charging basis, disbursements, VAT treatment and timescales on its website. This firm's published conveyancing prices are shown above, read 16 October 2026 from its website. Check the firm's own page at sparlings.co.uk for any update before instructing it. Compare against the national average of £1,575 plus VAT and the disbursements you will pay on top.
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The SRA records the firm's constitution as partnership, a structure with no Companies House registration, so there is no company record to cross-reference; the SRA authorisation record is the only public register entry for the firm.
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Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 3 November 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.