SG8 8ND
Last sold £410,000 in December 2002
Willow Cottage, Royston
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 126m
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Price history in context
- Dec 2002 — £410,000 · +148.5% · 26 pts ahead of the UK market
- Apr 1996 — £165,000
What this home might be worth today
£956,000
Estimate range £908,000–£1,004,000
+133.1% since December 2002 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
The life around it
- Barkway VA Church of England First School 2.1km
- Anstey First School 1.9km
- Royston station 8.2km
- Earls Wood 698m
- The coast (coastline) 38.2km
- Lake 5.9km
- Pond 1.2km
- Goldings Canal 22.9km
- River Quin 1.2km
- Layston Court Gardens 6.5km
- Playing Field 1.9km
- Basras Supermarket 6.7km
- Blind Fiddler Ph (Opp) 1.6km
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more Not available
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more Not available
- 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 Royston, 8.2km away
- 16 min Cambridge
- 39 min London
- 105 min Oxford
- 119 min Brighton
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 Barkway VA Church of England First School · Primary · Church of England 1.3 miles State Ofsted Good
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3 Barley (VA) Church of England First School · Primary · Church of England 2.3 miles State Ofsted Good
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,580 hours a year — sunnier than 50% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 2% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Among the lowest for England & Wales — 42 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- Bell Cottage, Royston £165,000 · 1997
- 3, Dimsdale Cottages, Royston £171,000 · 2000
- The Nook, Royston £260,000 · 2004
- 2, Dimsdale Cottages, Royston £247,500 · 2006
- Briar Toft, Royston £550,000 · 2008
- Teanga Cluig, Royston £490,000 · 2011
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Use of the property as a dwellinghouse (Class C3) in breach of condition 3 attached to… Feb 2026 source
- Conditions Installation of EV charger to the eastern wall of front porch. Dec 2025 source
- Conditions Installation of EV charger to the eastern wall of front porch Dec 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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