CT19 5PS
Last sold £260,000 in September 2017
79, Downs Road, Folkestone
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Bedrooms
- 4 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,023 sq ft / 95 sq m
- EPC rating
- E
- Elevation
- About 33m — higher than about 20% of homes in Folkestone
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Price history in context
- Sep 2017 — £260,000
What this home might be worth today
£339,000
Estimate range £322,000–£356,000
+30.4% since September 2017 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid in line with the local norm
vs 105 nearby sales within a year · 4-bed (est.) semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Mundella Primary School 8-min walk
- The Beacon Folkestone 7-min walk
- Folkestone Central station 18-min walk crosses a major road
- Killing Wood 2.1km
- The coast (coastline) 1.4km
- The Hart Reservoir 1.6km
- Boating Pond 627m
- Canal 4.3km
- Pent Stream 449m
- Radnor Park 501m
- Play Area 225m
- Spark 343m
- Walton Gardens (Adj) 64m
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 Folkestone Central, 1.0km away
- 56 min London
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 1,930 hours a year — sunnier than 90% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on a gentle south-west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 6% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 75 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 81, Downs Road, Folkestone £445,000 · 2025
- 83, Downs Road, Folkestone £420,000 · 2021
- 40, Downs Road, Folkestone £322,000 · 2020
- 42, Downs Road, Folkestone £414,000 · 2021
- 36, Downs Road, Folkestone £335,000 · 2024
- 48, Downs Road, Folkestone £230,000 · 2016
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Single storey front porch extension and new roof to existing bay window. Oct 2025 source
- Permitted Approval of details pursuant to condition 11 (arboricultural mitigation) of planning… Apr 2025 source
- Permitted Non Material Amendment to planning permission Y19/0704/FH to amend wording of condition… Mar 2025 source
- Permitted Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) for the excavation and installation of drainage… Aug 2025 source
- Permitted Approval of details pursuant to conditions 7 (service margins), 15 (water usage) in part,… May 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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