CT19 5PW
Last sold £390,000 in August 2024
18, Downs Road, Folkestone
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Bedrooms
- 3 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,098 sq ft / 102 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
- Elevation
- About 35m — higher than about 20% of homes in Folkestone
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Price history in context
- Aug 2024 — £390,000 · +80.6% · 10 pts ahead of the UK market
- May 2012 — £216,000 · +45.0% · 9 pts ahead of the UK market
- Feb 2003 — £149,000
What this home might be worth today
£397,000
Estimate range £377,000–£417,000
+1.9% since August 2024 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 63 nearby sales within a year · 3-bed (est.) semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Mundella Primary School 6-min walk
- The Beacon Folkestone 9-min walk
- Folkestone Central station 17-min walk crosses a major road
- Killing Wood 2.2km
- The coast (coastline) 1.3km
- The Hart Reservoir 1.7km
- Boating Pond 620m
- Canal 4.4km
- Pent Stream 390m
- Radnor Park 482m
- Play Area 264m
- Spark 218m
- Walton Gardens (Opp) 60m
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 Folkestone Central, 1.0km away
- 56 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
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,930 hours a year — sunnier than 90% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 3% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 75 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 45, Downs Road, Folkestone £60,000 · 1999
- 29, Downs Road, Folkestone £155,000 · 2003
- 32, Downs Road, Folkestone £179,000 · 2004
- 63, Downs Road, Folkestone £212,000 · 2006
- 35, Downs Road, Folkestone £175,000 · 2007
- 43, Downs Road, Folkestone £190,000 · 2009
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Single storey rear & side extension with a raised rear decking area, with associated 1.8m… May 2026 source
- Conditions Single storey rear extension. May 2025 source
- Permitted Notification under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)… May 2026 source
- Permitted Approval of details pursuant to condition 11 (arboricultural mitigation) of planning… Apr 2025 source
- Permitted Non Material Amendment to planning permission Y19/0704/FH to amend wording of condition… Mar 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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