BS20 8HY
Last sold £91,500 in May 1996
257, Down Road, Bristol
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 103m
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Price history in context
- May 1996 — £91,500
What this home might be worth today
£474,000
Estimate range £450,000–£497,000
+417.5% since May 1996 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 172 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- High Down Infant School 1.0km
- High Down Junior School 1.1km
- Nailsea and Backwell station 7.3km
- Weston Big Wood 951m
- The coast (coastline) 532m
- Lake 1.7km
- Pond 247m
- Canal 15.1km
- Walton Brook 1.6km
- Public Park 1.1km
- Play Area 327m
- Aldi 5.6km
- Queens Road (Sw-Bound) 65m
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 Nailsea and Backwell, 7.3km away
- 9 min Bristol
- 77 min Cardiff
- 96 min Oxford
- 100 min Birmingham
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
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3 Gordano School · Secondary 1.4 miles State Ofsted Good Attainment 8: 48.3 — top 40% nationally (2023)
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,710 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 north-west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 4% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Above average for England & Wales — 230 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 256b, Down Road, Bristol £30,000 · 1995
- 267, Down Road, Bristol £64,500 · 1996
- 254, Down Road, Bristol £249,000 · 2006
- 273, Down Road, Bristol £249,000 · 2006
- Fistral, 252, Down Road, Bristol £630,000 · 2018
- 260, Down Road, Bristol £385,000 · 2013
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Proposed dormer roof extension incorporating a front gable and front and rear dormers to… May 2026 source
- Rejected Erection of a single storey flat roof extension to side of church and relocation of… Feb 2026 source
- Undecided Proposed extension of existing Northern dormer. Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Proposed erection of a detached annexe outbuilding to the rear of the dwelling. Oct 2025 source
- Undecided Proposed erection of a single storey side and rear extension to the existing bungalow. Aug 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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