TQ1 3LD
Last sold £480,000 in September 2005
Rancliffe, Higher Downs Road, Torquay
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
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Price history in context
- Sep 2005 — £480,000
What this home might be worth today
£884,000
Estimate range £840,000–£928,000
+84.2% since September 2005 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 35 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, Torquay 550m
- Abbey School 226m
- Torre station 2.1km
- Clennon Hill Wood 7.4km
- The coast (coastline) 309m
- Lake 5.6km
- Pond 855m
- Canal 8.9km
- Aller Brook 3.7km
- Public Park 114m
- Play Area 322m
- Sainsbury's Local 301m
- Model Village (N-Bound) 46m
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 Torre, 2.1km away
- 90 min Bristol
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
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2 Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, Torquay · Primary · Roman Catholic 0.3 miles State Ofsted Good
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3 St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery School · Primary · Church of England 0.3 miles State Ofsted Good
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 129 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- Homefield, Higher Downs Road, Torquay £150,000 · 1995
- Crag Lodge, Higher Downs Road, Torquay £499,995 · 2004
- The Cavendish, 1, Higher Downs Road, Torquay £410,000 · 2019
- The Cavendish, 6, Higher Downs Road, Torquay £500,000 · 2019
- The Cavendish, 8, Higher Downs Road, Torquay £515,000 · 2019
- The Cavendish, 2, Higher Downs Road, Torquay £399,000 · 2020
Planning activity nearby
- Undecided Alterations to roof profile with removal of flat roofs over villa. Re-configuration of… Dec 2025 source
- Rejected Kitchen ventilation ducting and green infrastructure roof improvements (retrospective). Jun 2026 source
- Withdrawn Isolated damp proofing behind existing dry linings internally. Lead weathering to… Jul 2026 source
- Permitted Installation of 12 PV solar panels to the existing flat roofs behind existing parapet… Sep 2025 source
- Permitted Please see attached survey for works schedule and evidence/justification. Sep 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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