WA8 5PZ
Last sold £370,000 in June 2015
279, Cronton Road, Widnes
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
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Price history in context
- Today — see what it's worth now
- Dec 1996 — £59,500
- Dec 1999 — £123,000 · +106.7% · 69 pts ahead of the UK market
- Jun 2015 — £370,000 · +200.8% · 62 pts ahead of the UK market
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 34 nearby sales within a year · semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Cronton Church of England Primary Academy is 604m away.
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery is 864m away.
- Hough Green station is 1.8km away.
- Mill Wood is 5.2km away.
- The coast (coastline) is 3.8km away.
- Big Water is 2.4km away.
- Pond is 285m away.
- Canal is 4.5km away.
- Dog Clog Brook is 550m away.
Broadband
- Gigabit-capable broadband is not available to any premises in this postcode.
- Ultrafast broadband (100Mbit/s or more) is not available to any premises in this postcode.
- Superfast broadband (30Mbit/s or more) is available to 75% of premises in this postcode — not all of them.
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 Hough Green, 1.8km away
- 25 min Liverpool
- 47 min Manchester
- 106 min Birmingham
- 106 min Sheffield
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.
Nearby schools
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Ofsted Outstanding (inspected Mar 2024)is 604m away.
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Ofsted inspected Mar 2024 (ungraded framework — School remains Good)is 864m away.
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Ofsted Good (inspected Sep 2023)is 1.0km away.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 55 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
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Nearby sold homes
Planning activity nearby
- OUTLINE PLANNING APPLICATION (INCLUDING DETAILS OF ACCESS WITH ALL OTHER MATTERS… — Undecided, Jan 2026 source
- Adjoining Authority Consultation by Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council regarding an… — Undecided, Mar 2026 source
- REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING DOORS, WINDOWS AND FRONT VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS GATES,… — Permitted, Jan 2026 source
- ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION, LOFT CONVERSION WITH A FLAT ROOF REAR DORMER,… — Permitted, Mar 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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