RG8 0DT
Last sold £407,000 in September 1997
Beechcroft, Elvendon Road, Reading
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 63m — higher than about 70% of homes in Reading
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Price history in context
- Sep 1997 — £407,000
What this home might be worth today
£1,832,000
Estimate range £1,740,000–£1,923,000
+350.0% since September 1997 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 37 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Langtree School 3.8km
- Goring Church of England Aided Primary School 9-min walk
- Goring & Streatley station 19-min walk
- Wroxhills Wood 637m
- The coast (coastline) 55.8km
- Lake 850m
- Pond 922m
- Canal 9.6km
- River Thames 863m
- Lough Down 2.0km
- The Bourdillon Children's Playing Field 408m
- Londis 695m
- Scout Hut (O/S) 268m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 63.2% of premises — not all
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 63.2% of premises — not all
- 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 Goring & Streatley, 1.2km away
- 38 min Oxford
- 44 min London
- 75 min Bristol
- 109 min Cardiff
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 1,520 hours a year — sunnier than 30% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on a gentle west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 6% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Among the lowest for England & Wales — 32 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- The Gables, Elvendon Road, Reading £392,500 · 1996
- Summerlands, Elvendon Road, Reading £1,635,000 · 2007
- Spylaw House, Elvendon Road, Reading £1,975,000 · 2008
- Long Meadow, Elvendon Road, Reading £550,000 · 2009
- Battle Hill, Elvendon Road, Reading £1,140,000 · 2009
- Beechwood House, Elvendon Road, Reading £1,950,000 · 2015
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Extended parking area Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Erection of replacement Garden Room and modifications to existing house fenestration.… Jun 2026 source
- Undecided Conversion of integral garage to become habitable internal space. Alterations to external… Jun 2026 source
- Undecided Removal of existing rear extension & erection of flat roof rear extension. Jun 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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