WA8 0BP
Last sold £78,500 in March 2002
71, Castle Street, Widnes
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 23m — higher than about 40% of homes in Widnes
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Price history in context
- Mar 2002 — £78,500
What this home might be worth today
£220,000
Estimate range £209,000–£231,000
+179.7% since March 2002 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 109 nearby sales within a year · semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Moorfield Primary School 17-min walk
- St John Fisher Catholic Primary School 5-min walk
- Widnes station 1.7km
- Flood Brook Clough 6.0km
- The coast (coastline) 1.3km
- Lake 1.2km
- Pond 1.2km
- Sankey Canal 1.2km
- River Mersey 1.3km
- Crow Wood Park 249m
- Playing Field 624m
- Spar 136m
- Warrington Road 46m
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, 1.7km 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: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 27, Castle Street, Widnes £24,000 · 1995
- 66, Castle Street, Widnes £24,000 · 1997
- 68, Castle Street, Widnes £38,500 · 1998
- 69, Castle Street, Widnes £78,500 · 2002
- 75, Castle Street, Widnes £73,950 · 2002
- 73, Castle Street, Widnes £95,000 · 2003
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Proposed subdivision of existing house into 2 no. 1-bed apartments, conversion of former… Feb 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
- Undecided Application to discharge condition no.s 4 (Levels), 5 (Materials), 7 (Soft landscaping),… Jun 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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