BR5 4AJ
Last sold £455,000 in August 2018
159, Lower Road, Orpington
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 4 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,055 sq ft / 98 sq m
- EPC rating
- E
- Elevation
- About 54m
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Price history in context
- Aug 2018 — £455,000 · +378.9% · 123 pts ahead of the UK market
- Jul 1997 — £95,000
What this home might be worth today
£575,000
Estimate range £546,000–£604,000
+26.4% since August 2018 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid in line with the local norm
vs 14 nearby sales within a year · 4-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Perry Hall Primary School 15-min walk crosses a major road
- St Philomena's Primary School 12-min walk
- St Mary Cray station 21-min walk
- Broom Hill Wood 908m
- The coast (coastline) 10.3km
- Lake 1.9km
- Orpington Pond 178m
- Croydon Canal 12.4km
- Kyd Brook 2.1km
- Riverside Gardens 68m
- Play Area 292m
- Shop 634m
- Lower Road / Derry Downs (Stop M) 137m
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 St Mary Cray, 1.3km away
- 26 min London
- 94 min Cambridge
- 102 min Brighton
- 110 min Oxford
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 65–69 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a main road close by.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,580 hours a year — sunnier than 50% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 4% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Above average for England & Wales — 166 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 157, Lower Road, Orpington £390,000 · 2023
- 155, Lower Road, Orpington £230,000 · 2014
- 151, Lower Road, Orpington £250,000 · 2015
- 2, Gilroy Way, Orpington £413,000 · 2017
- 149, Lower Road, Orpington £159,995 · 2001
- 7, Gilroy Way, Orpington £400,000 · 2017
Planning activity nearby
- Undecided Single storey rear extension Jun 2026 source
- Rejected Single storey rear extension LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (PROPOSED) Apr 2026 source
- Undecided Construction of two story side extension and single storey rear extension to existing… May 2026 source
- Undecided Retention/continued change of Use from Use Class C3 Dwellinghouses to Use Class sui… May 2026 source
- Undecided Single storey side extension and elevational alterations Apr 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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