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CT19 6NJ

Last sold £293,000 in February 2025

196, Dover Road, Folkestone

Property type
Terraced
Bedrooms
4 (est.)
Tenure
Freehold
Floor area
1,432 sq ft / 133 sq m
Plot area
about 2,200 sq ft / 200 sq m
EPC rating
D
Elevation
About 45m

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Price history in context

  • Feb 2025 — £293,000 · +222.0% · 150 pts ahead of the UK market
  • May 2011 — £91,000 · +186.6% · 10 pts ahead of the UK market
  • Mar 1997 — £31,750
— sold price – – bank of england base rate £293,000 £31,750 1997 2025

The life around it

  • Castle Hill Community Primary School 5-min walk
  • Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary Academy 11-min walk
  • Folkestone Central station 1.5km
  • Killing Wood 2.6km
  • The coast (coastline) 815m
  • The Hart Reservoir 2.5km
  • Pond 759m
  • Canal 5.0km
  • Pent Stream 779m
  • East Cliff And Warren Country Park 640m
  • Play Area 203m
  • Tesco Express 54m
  • Stuart Road (Adj) 19m

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, 1.5km 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

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 1,950 hours a year — sunnier than 90% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.

Hills: on a gentle south-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 2% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.

Crime

Below average for England & Wales — 117 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

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Planning activity nearby

  • Withdrawn Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) to change use from guest house to domestic… Jan 2025 source
  • Conditions Change of use from residential (C3) to a house of multiple occupation (HMO). Oct 2025 source
  • Conditions Change of use from guest house (Use Class C1) to residential house (Use Class C3). May 2025 source
  • Withdrawn Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 25/1484/FH to amend the… Feb 2026 source
  • Conditions Conversion of integral garage to provide annexe accommodation Feb 2026 source

Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.

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