CT19 5TH
Last sold £160,000 in August 2006
233, Downs Road, Folkestone
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 50m — higher than about 50% of homes in Folkestone
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Price history in context
- Aug 2006 — £160,000
What this home might be worth today
£273,000
Estimate range £259,000–£286,000
+70.5% since August 2006 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid in line with the local norm
vs 122 nearby sales within a year · semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Folkestone Academy 15-min walk
- The Beacon Folkestone 13-min walk
- Folkestone Central station 26-min walk crosses a major road
- Killing Wood 1.7km
- The coast (coastline) 1.8km
- The Hart Reservoir 1.5km
- Boating Pond 1.0km
- Canal 4.6km
- Pent Stream 872m
- Brabner Park 705m
- Play Area 114m
- Mace 663m
- Post Box (Opp) 128m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 93.2% of premises — not all
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 93.2% of premises — not all
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 93.2% of premises — not all
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, 1.4km 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 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 1,930 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 6% 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: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 190, Downs Road, Folkestone £58,000 · 1997
- 279, Downs Road, Folkestone £64,995 · 2000
- 231, Downs Road, Folkestone £91,000 · 2002
- 271, Downs Road, Folkestone £120,000 · 2003
- 188, Downs Road, Folkestone £160,000 · 2005
- 241, Downs Road, Folkestone £173,500 · 2007
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Approval of details pursuant to condition 2 (drainage) of planning permission 24/1611/FH. Feb 2025 source
- Undecided Two-storey side & single-storey rear extensions with front garden alterations to provide… Jun 2026 source
- Conditions Single storey rear extension and a two-storey side extension Sep 2025 source
- Permitted Non material amendment to planning permission 25/1415/FH to allow for removal of… Feb 2026 source
- Rejected Two storey rear extension. Sep 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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