CT20 1JX
Last sold £240,000 in June 2025
42, Dover Road, Folkestone
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 16m
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Price history in context
- Jan 2005 — £100,000 · +122.2% · 44 pts ahead of the UK market
- Mar 2000 — £45,000
What this home might be worth today
£243,000
Estimate range £231,000–£255,000
+1.4% since June 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
The life around it
- Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone 11-min walk
- Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary School 8-min walk
- Folkestone Central station 17-min walk
- Killing Wood 3.0km
- The coast (coastline) 450m
- The Hart Reservoir 2.5km
- Pond 367m
- Canal 4.4km
- Pent Stream 56m
- Payers Park 178m
- F51 24m
- Memel Shop 3m
- Health Centre (Adj) 47m
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 Folkestone Central, 966m 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
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1 Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.3 miles State
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 65–69 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a main road close by.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,950 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-west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 7% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Among the highest for England & Wales — 390 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 44, Dover Road, Folkestone £22,000 · 2000
- 44a, Dover Road, Folkestone £32,000 · 2001
- 2, St Michaels Street, Folkestone £119,900 · 2006
- 4, St Michaels Street, Folkestone £110,000 · 2023
- 11, St Michaels Street, Folkestone £57,500 · 1998
- 31, St Michaels Street, Folkestone £119,000 · 2014
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Conversion and alterations to existing garage unit (use class B2) to create 1 no. 2… May 2025 source
- Permitted Approval of details pursuant to condition 16.2 (contamination risk assessment) of… Apr 2026 source
- Permitted Non material amendment to planning permission Y19/0016/FH to allow for change to the… Apr 2026 source
- Conditions Loft conversion to include the erection of front and rear dormer window extensions. May 2025 source
- Rejected Change of use & conversion of part of the existing offices into four self-contained flats… Dec 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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