WA8 3LJ
Last sold £235,000 in July 2025
68, Barnes Road, Widnes
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Bedrooms
- 5 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,259 sq ft / 117 sq m
- Plot area
- about 3,200 sq ft / 300 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
- Elevation
- About 32m — higher than about 60% of homes in Widnes
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Price history in context
- Jul 2025 — £235,000 · +104.3% · 45 pts ahead of the UK market
- Apr 2014 — £115,000 · +0.0% · 10 pts behind the UK market
- Jan 2010 — £115,000 · +76.9% · 77 pts ahead of the UK market
- Nov 2009 — £65,000
What this home might be worth today
£236,000
Estimate range £224,000–£248,000
+0.5% since July 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid in line with the local norm
vs 82 nearby sales within a year · 5-bed (est.) semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Moorfield Primary School 11-min walk
- Brookfields School 9-min walk
- Widnes station 1.3km
- Flood Brook Clough 6.6km
- The coast (coastline) 1.9km
- Lake 1.8km
- Pond 1.1km
- Sankey Canal 1.8km
- River Mersey 1.9km
- Crow Wood Park 39m
- Playing Field 39m
- Shop 411m
- Barnes Road 109m
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, 1.3km 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
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: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 70, Barnes Road, Widnes £64,000 · 2002
- 72, Barnes Road, Widnes £75,000 · 2006
- 64, Barnes Road, Widnes £132,000 · 2007
- 62, Barnes Road, Widnes £160,000 · 2025
- 102, Ireland Street, Widnes £130,000 · 2014
- 100, Ireland Street, Widnes £110,000 · 2019
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Proposed change of use for part of existing park building (Use Class F) to a café (Use… Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Application to discharge condition no.s 18 (Sustainable Development and Climate Change… Oct 2025 source
- Permitted Application to discharge condition nos. 2 (External Facing Materials), 5 (Visibility… Jul 2025 source
- Permitted Proposed erection of 10no. one-bedroom apartments and 3no. two-bedroom bungalows to be… May 2025 source
- Permitted Application for a certificate of proposed lawful development for detached garage to be… Jul 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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