SG12 8AH
Last sold £290,000 in July 2012
3, Orchard Close, Ware
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 28m
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Price history in context
- Jul 2012 — £290,000
What this home might be worth today
£498,000
Estimate range £473,000–£523,000
+71.6% since July 2012 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid in line with the local norm
vs 27 nearby sales within a year · semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- The Cranbourne Primary School 26-min walk crosses a major road
- St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 9-min walk
- St Margarets station 5-min walk
- Woodland 1.5km
- The coast (coastline) 25.5km
- Lake 150m
- Pond 360m
- Rye House Power Station Dock (Disused) 3.2km
- River Lea 72m
- Public Park 87m
- Play Area 245m
- Co-Op Food 116m
- St Margaret's Railway Station (Stop B) 181m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 55.9% of premises — not all
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 55.9% of premises — not all
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 82.4% 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 St Margarets, 278m away
- 44 min London
- 79 min Cambridge
- 117 min Brighton
- 119 min Oxford
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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1 St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.2 miles State
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3 St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.7 miles State
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: Low. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,610 hours a year — sunnier than 70% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 3% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 87 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 16, Orchard Close, Ware £152,000 · 2000
- 7, Orchard Close, Ware £245,000 · 2004
- 39, Orchard Close, Ware £325,000 · 2005
- 14, Orchard Close, Ware £249,950 · 2009
- 41, Orchard Close, Ware £345,000 · 2011
- 37, Orchard Close, Ware £385,000 · 2014
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Siting of 2 x temporary buildings (Portakabins) for use as office and mess space in car… Mar 2026 source
- Withdrawn Change of use from restaurant premises class E (b) to two x 1 bedroom self-contained… Nov 2025 source
- Conditions Conversion of ground floor sash window into doorway located in modern (1992) extension on… Mar 2026 source
- Conditions Conversion of ground floor sash window into doorway located in modern (1992) extension on… Mar 2026 source
- Conditions Convert garage into habitable room incorporating new front facing window Feb 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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