CT5 3HR
Last sold £500,000 in August 2025
Postbox Cottage, Ridgeway, Whitstable
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 5 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,722 sq ft / 160 sq m
- Plot area
- about 4,300 sq ft / 400 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
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Price history in context
- Aug 2025 — £500,000 · −6.5% · 24 pts behind the UK market
- May 2021 — £535,000
What this home might be worth today
£498,000
Estimate range £473,000–£523,000
−0.4% since August 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 40 nearby sales within a year · 5-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- The Whitstable School 22-min walk
- The Far Academy CIC 10-min walk
- Chestfield & Swalecliffe station 18-min walk crosses a major road
- Childs Forstal 2.0km
- The coast (coastline) 1.2km
- Lake 4.8km
- Pond 513m
- Royal Harbour Marina (Inner) 25.5km
- Swalecliffe Brook 456m
- Chestfield Village Green 1.3km
- Playing Field 563m
- Tankerton Mini Market 1.2km
- Highgate Road (Adj) 68m
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 Chestfield & Swalecliffe, 1.2km away
- 85 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
Around average for England & Wales — 168 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 43, Clover Rise, Whitstable £600,000 · 2016
- Tracks, Ridgeway, Whitstable £70,500 · 1997
- 1, Ridgeway, Whitstable £230,000 · 2014
- 3, Ridgeway, Whitstable £365,000 · 2015
- 4, Richmond Road, Whitstable £375,000 · 2017
- 2, Richmond Road, Whitstable £440,000 · 2016
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Change of use from vehicle repair workshop to vehicle spray booth together with filter… Jun 2026 source
- Undecided Single-storey side extension and conservatory following demolition of existing extension… Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Single-storey rear and side extension and roof extension to side elevation. Mar 2026 source
- Undecided Details submitted pursuant to condition 17 (Highway Safety) of planning permission… May 2026 source
- Undecided Details submitted pursuant to condition 7 (Landscaping), 9 (Overflow Car Park), 11… Apr 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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