CT19 5UA
Last sold £312,500 in May 2009
8, Thompson Close, Folkestone
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
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Price history in context
- May 2009 — £312,500
What this home might be worth today
£580,000
Estimate range £551,000–£609,000
+85.5% since May 2009 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 24 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Folkestone Academy 366m
- The Beacon Folkestone 802m
- Folkestone West station 1.1km
- Killing Wood 1.8km
- The coast (coastline) 2.1km
- The Hart Reservoir 704m
- Pond 263m
- Canal 3.7km
- Pent Stream 406m
- Radnor Park 845m
- Morehall Recreation Ground 393m
- Shop 949m
- Middle Mead (Opp) 37m
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 West, 1.1km away
- 53 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
Crime
Above average for England & Wales — 334 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 2, Thompson Close, Folkestone £175,000 · 2000
- 7, Thompson Close, Folkestone £249,950 · 2006
- 6, Thompson Close, Folkestone £236,000 · 2009
- 1, Thompson Close, Folkestone £110,000 · 2015
- 16, Ainsdale Close, Folkestone £230,000 · 2011
- 20, Ainsdale Close, Folkestone £240,000 · 2019
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Single storey side and rear extension Jul 2025 source
- Permitted Notification under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)… Nov 2025 source
- Conditions Erection of a replacement front porch. Jun 2026 source
- Conditions Erection of a single-storey side/rear extension to create an annexe, new enclosed… Mar 2026 source
- Permitted Non-Material Amendment to planning permission 25/1852/FH to amend condition 5 to allow… Jan 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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