WA8 3YX
Last sold £104,000 in May 2002
5, Ribble Close, Widnes
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Leasehold
- Elevation
- About 25m — higher than about 40% of homes in Widnes
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Price history in context
- May 2002 — £104,000
What this home might be worth today
£280,000
Estimate range £266,000–£294,000
+169.5% since May 2002 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well below the local norm at the time
vs 109 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Moorfield Primary School 16-min walk
- Brookfields School 20-min walk
- Widnes station 2.3km
- Rows Wood 6.5km
- The coast (coastline) 2.2km
- Lake 2.0km
- Pond 747m
- Sankey Canal 2.0km
- River Mersey 2.2km
- Sunnybank Woodland Park 71m
- Playing Field 681m
- Shop 660m
- Snowberry Close 66m
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 Widnes, 2.3km away
- 23 min Liverpool
- 29 min Manchester
- 85 min Sheffield
- 102 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
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 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,450 hours a year — sunnier than 10% 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.
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 16, Ribble Close, Widnes £83,000 · 1996
- 9, Ribble Close, Widnes £81,000 · 2001
- 10, Ribble Close, Widnes £267,500 · 2023
- 20, Ribble Close, Widnes £190,000 · 2016
- 4, Ribble Close, Widnes £212,000 · 2021
- 8, Ribble Close, Widnes £191,000 · 2017
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Application for a Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for a proposed single storey… Jan 2026 source
- Withdrawn Proposed rear ground floor and first floor extensions, front dormer extension over… Dec 2025 source
- Permitted Proposed single storey rear extension and a detached garden building at Nov 2025 source
- Permitted Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act to vary condition 3 of… Aug 2025 source
- Permitted Proposed ground floor extension to form rear lounge and side entrance hall (infill) at Jun 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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