Last sold £72,500 in June 1996

Price history in context

• Show me today's estimate
• Jun 1996 — £72,500

The life around it

• Grasmere CofE Primary School 4.7km
• Ambleside CofE Primary School 64-min walk crosses a major road
• Windermere station 7.1km
• Clappersgate Woods 878m
• The coast (coastline) 18.6km
• Lake 668m
• Pond 429m
• Canal 5.3km
• Stock Ghyll 74m
• Stock Ghyll Park 105m
• Play Area 235m
• Co-Op Food 235m
• Gait Barrows (By) 28.8km

Broadband

• Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 50% of premises — not all
• Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 50% of premises — not all
• 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 Windermere, 7.1km away

• 94 min Manchester

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 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.

Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.

Sunshine and hills

Sunshine: about 1,300 hours a year. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.

Hills: on a gentle south-west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 15% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.

Planning

• In the Ambleside conservation area — external changes usually need consent.

From planning.data.gov.uk, where the council has published. Not planning advice.

Crime

Below average for England & Wales — 143 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

Location: approximate (postcode)

See this street on Google Street View ↗

Nearby sold homes

• St Annes Court, 5, How Head, Ambleside £110,000 · 1998
• 5, How Head, Ambleside £115,000 · 2000
• How Head, 4, Chapel Hill, Ambleside £285,000 · 2005
• 5 St Annes Court, Altar End, How Head, Ambleside £302,500 · 2012
• 6, How Head, Ambleside £572,500 · 2014
• St Annes Court, 2, How Head, Ambleside £365,000 · 2015

Planning activity nearby

• Undecided Installation of external spiral staircase Oct 2025 source
• Permitted Cherry tree (listed as T1 in notification) - Fell to ground level. May 2026 source
• Permitted Acer tree (marked as Acer in notification) - Reduce and reshape by up to 2m. Jan 2026 source
• Undecided Proposed change of use from butcher's shop to residential at ground floor level to create… Mar 2026 source
• Conditions Variation of condition 2 (plans) of planning permission 7/2025/5324, change of use to… Oct 2025 source

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