OX12 9EP

Last sold £320,000 in October 2014

5, Bec Close, Wantage

Property type: Detached
Bedrooms: 5 (est.)
Tenure: Freehold
Floor area: 1,163 sq ft / 108 sq m
EPC rating: D
Elevation: About 104m — higher than about 90% of homes in Wantage

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Price history in context

Date	Price	Change	Base rate at sale	vs UK market
Today	Show me today's estimate
October 2014	£320,000	+85.5%	0.5%	+9 pts
May 2002	£172,500		4.0%

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Oct 2014 — £320,000 · +85.5% · 9 pts ahead of the UK market
May 2002 — £172,500

paid well below the local norm at the time

vs 59 nearby sales within a year · 5-bed (est.) detached within 1 km

The life around it

Fitzwaryn School 13-min walk crosses a major road
Stockham Primary School 6-min walk
Didcot Halt station 13.6km
Bowers Wood 5.5km
The coast (coastline) 64.3km
Lockinge Brook 3.6km
Pond 263m
Wilts & Berks Canal 4.9km
Letcombe Brook 487m
Betjeman Millennium Park 538m
Play Area 361m
Wantage Continental Foods 799m
Dean Butler Close (Opp) 42m

Broadband

Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 92.3% of premises — not all
Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 92.3% of premises — not all
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 Didcot Parkway, 13.8km away

13 min Oxford
37 min London
39 min Bristol
74 min Cardiff

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

1 Stockham Primary School · Primary 0.2 miles State
2 Fitzwaryn School 0.4 miles State Ofsted Outstanding
3 King Alfred's · Secondary 0.5 miles State Attainment 8: 44.0 (2023)
4 St Nicholas CofE Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.7 miles State
5 Wantage Church of England Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.7 miles State
6 Huckleberry Therapeutic School 1.1 miles State
7 Charlton Primary School · Primary 1.1 miles State
8 St Johns CofE Academy · All through · Church of England 1.3 miles State
9 Millbrook Primary School · Primary 1.5 miles State Ofsted Good
10 Wantage Primary Academy · Primary 1.5 miles State Ofsted Outstanding

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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 60–64 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a busy road within earshot.

Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.

Sunshine and hills

Sunshine: about 1,600 hours a year — sunnier than 60% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.

Hills: no hills shade it. Buildings and trees are not counted.

Crime

Around average for England & Wales — 65 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

Location: exact

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Nearby sold homes

8, Bec Close, Wantage £105,950 · 1996
9, Bec Close, Wantage £295,500 · 2010
4, Bec Close, Wantage £433,000 · 2025
2, Bec Close, Wantage £248,475 · 2004
10, Bec Close, Wantage £425,000 · 2025
11, Bec Close, Wantage £96,500 · 1997

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