CT19 5PS
Last sold £60,000 in April 1998
85, Downs Road, Folkestone
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 31m — higher than about 20% of homes in Folkestone
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Price history in context
- Apr 1998 — £60,000
What this home might be worth today
£252,000
Estimate range £240,000–£265,000
+320.7% since April 1998 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 127 nearby sales within a year · 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 2.0km
- The coast (coastline) 1.5km
- The Hart Reservoir 1.6km
- Boating Pond 651m
- Canal 4.3km
- Pent Stream 492m
- Radnor Park 531m
- Play Area 242m
- Spark 399m
- Walton Gardens (Adj) 122m
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, 1.1km 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 7% 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: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 73, Downs Road, Folkestone £60,000 · 1997
- 93, Downs Road, Folkestone £84,500 · 1998
- 87, Downs Road, Folkestone £110,000 · 2001
- 44, Downs Road, Folkestone £167,000 · 2002
- 91, Downs Road, Folkestone £175,000 · 2011
- 95, Downs Road, Folkestone £263,000 · 2015
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Single storey front porch extension and new roof to existing bay window. Oct 2025 source
- Conditions Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 23/1215/FH to allow for… Aug 2025 source
- Conditions Single storey rear extension and conversion of existing garage into additional living… May 2026 source
- Conditions Variation of conditions 2 (approved drawings) and 3 (materials) of planning permission… May 2025 source
- Permitted Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) for the excavation and installation of drainage… Aug 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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