MK42 7GT
Last sold £480,000 in November 2025
10, The Bower, Bedford
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 6 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,507 sq ft / 140 sq m
- Plot area
- about 3,200 sq ft / 300 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
- Elevation
- About 38m
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Price history in context
- Nov 2025 — £480,000 · +9.6% · 9 pts behind the UK market
- Apr 2021 — £438,000 · +18.4% · 8 pts behind the UK market
- Jun 2015 — £369,995
What this home might be worth today
£476,000
Estimate range £453,000–£500,000
−0.8% since November 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 15 nearby sales within a year · 6-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Balliol Primary School 14-min walk
- Ridgeway School 7-min walk
- Kempston Hardwick station 1.9km
- Kempston Wood 2.1km
- The coast (coastline) 43.7km
- Lake 560m
- Pond 601m
- River Ivel Navigation 15.0km
- River Great Ouse 1.0km
- Public Park 15m
- Play Area 57m
- Paul's Superstore 675m
- The Bower (Adj) 52m
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 Kempston Hardwick, 1.9km away
- 63 min London
- 114 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
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 60–64 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a busy road within earshot.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,560 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.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 99 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 8, The Bower, Bedford £294,995 · 2015
- 7, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £299,995 · 2015
- 6, The Bower, Bedford £382,000 · 2018
- 5, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £375,495 · 2015
- 9, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £440,000 · 2026
- 3, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £465,000 · 2021
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Prior notification for single storey rear extension(s) between 3 and 6 metres depth. Nov 2025 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 10 - Electric Vehicle Charging Points (Discharge of Condition) May 2026 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 6 - Junction Details (Discharge of Condition) May 2026 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 11 Bin Storage (Discharge of Condition) May 2026 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 4 - Ground Levels (Discharge of Condition) Apr 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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