PR5 5TE
Last sold £50,000 in December 1997
68, Ampleforth Drive, Preston
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 35m — higher than about 60% of homes in Preston
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Price history in context
- Dec 1997 — £50,000
What this home might be worth today
£227,000
Estimate range £216,000–£238,000
+353.9% since December 1997 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well below the local norm at the time
vs 57 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Lostock Hall Community Primary School 8-min walk
- Applebee Wood School 20-min walk
- Lostock Hall station 15-min walk
- Cockshott/Dogkennel Woods 1.3km
- The coast (coastline) 1.9km
- Lake 865m
- Pond 132m
- Lancaster Canal 4.3km
- River Lostock 1.2km
- Public Park 489m
- Playing Field 51m
- Spar 477m
- Firtrees Ave (Opp) 328m
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 Lostock Hall, 794m away
- 59 min Manchester
- 84 min Liverpool
- 117 min Leeds
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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2 Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall · Primary · Roman Catholic 0.2 miles State
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,400 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.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 100 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 76, Ampleforth Drive, Preston £43,000 · 1998
- 66, Ampleforth Drive, Preston £50,000 · 2001
- 2, Ampleforth Drive, Preston £116,000 · 2010
- 4, Ampleforth Drive, Preston £90,000 · 2012
- 20, Ampleforth Drive, Preston £105,000 · 2012
- 38, Ampleforth Drive, Preston £125,000 · 2022
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Non-material amendment application for alterations to porch, bay window and front canopy… Jan 2026 source
- Conditions Discharge of Conditon 2 (Mitigation Measures Scheme) of Planning Permission… Aug 2025 source
- Conditions Installation of a new temporary storage container to store club and training equipment,… May 2025 source
- Permitted Single storey rear extension May 2025 source
- Permitted Single storey rear extension Nov 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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