MK42 7GT
Last sold £294,995 in June 2015
8, The Bower, Bedford
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,270 sq ft / 118 sq m
- EPC rating
- B
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Price history in context
- Jun 2015 — £294,995
What this home might be worth today
£439,000
Estimate range £417,000–£461,000
+48.9% since June 2015 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 97 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Balliol Primary School 839m
- Ridgeway School 259m
- Kempston Hardwick station 1.9km
- Kempston Wood 2.1km
- The coast (coastline) 43.7km
- Lake 550m
- Pond 611m
- River Ivel Navigation 15.0km
- River Great Ouse 1.0km
- Public Park 15m
- Play Area 65m
- Paul's Superstore 673m
- The Bower (Adj) 55m
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 Kempston Hardwick, 1.9km away
- 63 min London
- 114 min Cambridge
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
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 60–64 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a busy road within earshot.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 109 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 10, The Bower, Bedford £480,000 · 2025
- 6, The Bower, Bedford £382,000 · 2018
- 4, The Bower, Bedford £359,995 · 2015
- 7, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £299,995 · 2015
- 5, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £375,495 · 2015
- 9, Fovargue Mead, Bedford £440,000 · 2026
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Prior notification for single storey rear extension(s) between 3 and 6 metres depth. Nov 2025 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 10 - Electric Vehicle Charging Points (Discharge of Condition) May 2026 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 6 - Junction Details (Discharge of Condition) May 2026 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 11 Bin Storage (Discharge of Condition) May 2026 source
- Permitted 21/02918/FUL - Condition 4 - Ground Levels (Discharge of Condition) Apr 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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