CB7 5DB
Last sold £690,000 in May 2020
1, Townsend, Ely
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 9 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 4,445 sq ft / 413 sq m
- EPC rating
- E
- Elevation
- About 6m — higher than about 20% of homes in Ely
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Price history in context
- May 2020 — £690,000 · +40.1% · 31 pts behind the UK market
- Oct 2003 — £492,500
What this home might be worth today
£874,000
Estimate range £830,000–£918,000
+26.7% since May 2020 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 13 nearby sales within a year · 9-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Soham Village College 24-min walk
- The Weatheralls Primary School 14-min walk
- Soham station 18-min walk
- Marmers Wood 17.5km
- The coast (coastline) 15.8km
- Lake 800m
- Pond 278m
- River Lark 6.4km
- Soham Lode 758m
- Qua Fen Common 192m
- Play Area 276m
- Soham Shopper 143m
- Golden Boar (Adj) 7.7km
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- 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 Soham, 956m away
- 46 min Cambridge
- 102 min London
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
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3 Soham Village College · Secondary 0.9 miles State Ofsted Outstanding Attainment 8: 53.0 — top 20% nationally (2023)
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,570 hours a year — sunnier than 50% 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.
Planning
- In the Soham conservation area — external changes usually need consent.
- An Article 4 direction applies here — some permitted development rights are withdrawn.
From planning.data.gov.uk, where the council has published. Not planning advice.
Crime
Among the lowest for England & Wales — 117 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 38, Martin Close, Ely £170,000 · 2004
- 18, Townsend, Ely £160,000 · 2018
- 16, Townsend, Ely £155,000 · 2014
- 20, Townsend, Ely £244,000 · 2024
- 22, Townsend, Ely £245,000 · 2025
- 6, Townsend, Ely £30,000 · 1995
Planning activity nearby
- Undecided To discharge Conditions 4 (Biodiversity Improvements) and 5 d. (Final Archaeological… Apr 2026 source
- Undecided Demolition of existing conservatory, construction of two-storey rear extension,… May 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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