Abbott Road Folkestone

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT20), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34500002.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £265,875 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 11, E: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Folkestone and Hythe costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Folkestone Central, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Payers Park, is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Harbour Medical Practice, about 360 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 300 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20224£265,875£235,000£300,000
20211£197,500£197,500£197,500
20191£166,500£166,500£166,500
20182£205,000£190,000£220,000
20161£145,000£145,000£145,000
20151£140,000£140,000£140,000
20131£148,000£148,000£148,000
20121£141,000£141,000£141,000
20082£87,500£50,000£125,000
20072£154,750£143,000£166,500
20061£136,500£136,500£136,500
20053£120,000£85,000£126,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Dec 20236 CT20 1NGTerraced£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Oct 202214 CT20 1NGTerraced£269,000
11 Apr 20222 CT20 1NGTerraced£300,000
4 Apr 202213 CT20 1NGTerraced£262,750
22 Mar 20224 CT20 1NGTerraced£235,000
11 Jun 202113 CT20 1NGTerraced£197,500
3 Jun 201910 CT20 1NGTerraced£166,500
29 Jun 20183 CT20 1NGTerraced£220,000
3 May 201824 CT20 1NGTerraced£190,000
2 Nov 201624 CT20 1NGTerraced£145,000
2 Sep 20154 CT20 1NGTerraced£140,000
1 Mar 20133 CT20 1NGTerraced£148,000
16 Jul 20129 CT20 1NGTerraced£141,000
24 Oct 20083 CT20 1NGTerraced£125,000
23 Jan 200823 CT20 1NGTerraced£50,000
15 Jun 200723 CT20 1NGTerraced£166,500
19 Apr 20074 CT20 1NGTerraced£143,000
2 Sep 200613 CT20 1NGTerraced£136,500
23 Nov 20059 CT20 1NGTerraced£85,000
27 May 200514 CT20 1NGTerraced£126,000
31 Mar 20057 CT20 1NGTerraced£120,000
3 Dec 20045 CT20 1NGTerraced£123,400
27 Aug 200412 CT20 1NGTerraced£124,000
2 Jul 200411 CT20 1NGTerraced£100,000
7 May 200418 CT20 1NGTerraced£118,000
24 Sep 200313 CT20 1NGTerraced£85,000
27 Jun 20038 CT20 1NGTerraced£59,950
20 Sep 20022 CT20 1NGTerraced£87,000
28 Jun 200214 CT20 1NGTerraced£72,500
8 Apr 200216 CT20 1NGTerraced£72,500
15 Feb 20029 CT20 1NGTerraced£73,037
29 Oct 19999 CT20 1NGTerraced£49,500
20 Aug 199912 CT20 1NGTerraced£53,950
30 Jul 19998 CT20 1NGTerraced£51,500
23 Jul 199915 CT20 1NGSemi-detached£58,000
30 Apr 19994 CT20 1NGTerraced£44,000
28 Nov 199716 CT20 1NGTerraced£44,950
17 Jun 199718 CT20 1NGTerraced£42,500
12 Dec 199623 CT20 1NGTerraced£42,800
29 Sep 199514 CT20 1NGTerraced£39,500
16 Jun 199524 CT20 1NGTerraced£30,750

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (6); before 1900 (5); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Folkestone and Hythe in 2026-27: Band D £2,539 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,693£1,975£2,257£2,539£3,103£3,667£4,231£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 900 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CT20 1NGnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CT20 1NQnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 5 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 26 addresses are between 27 m and 33 m above sea level (28 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CT20 1NG100%100%100%0%
CT20 1NQ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsFolkestone Central 817,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Folkestone West 970,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dover Road Post Office Folkestone90 m
Ferry terminalFolkestone Eurotunnel Terminal4.9 km (3 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shellons Street Car Park550 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tram Road Car Park430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN64 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW96.3 km (60 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harbour Medical Practice360 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mcardle Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Folkestone Dental Clinic300 m
HospitalRoyal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone)1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationFolkestone Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM60 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payers Park 2,980 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)East Cliff and Warren Country Park 91 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canterbury Road Recreation Ground 1.8 ha180 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 92 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 18 and 20, Church Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 650 m (0.4 miles) south. 72 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
18 and 20, Church StreetListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) south
The Parish Church of St Mary and St EanswytheListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) south
Folkestone War MemorialListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Leas Lift, including waiting rooms, pump room, lower station tanks, track, cars, wheel houses, tank room, upper station tunnel and railingsListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Two Martello towers, East CliffScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) east
An unenclosed Iron Age urnfield and Roman villa, 60m ESE of No.64 Wear Bay RoadScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East CliffCliff or slope560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Bayle PondLake or reservoir590 m (0.4 miles) south
Folkestone BeachBeach590 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Boating PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) west
Dover HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
The WarrenWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59100
Under 551626

10 of the street's 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Folkestone and Hythe: see them on the Folkestone and Hythe page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Castle Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mundella Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Eanswythe's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone Church of EnglandPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Martello PrimaryPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Folkestone AcademySecondary11–191.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Folkestone PrimaryPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Harvey Grammar SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Delish Chicken CT20 1NLTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Stricklands Bakery CT20 1LARetailers - other50 m5 Very good20 Nov 2023
Dover Road Social Club CT20 1JZPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good6 Apr 2021
Chummys Cookhouse CT20 1LAManufacturers/packers120 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Londis CT20 1NSRetailers - other120 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
D'Agostinis Fish Bar CT20 1NXTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Folkestone Community Fridge CT20 1NXRetailers - other190 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Lotus House CT20 1NXTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good27 Nov 2023
Quick Shop Convenience CT20 1JZRetailers - other220 m3 Generally satisfactory5 May 2026
Nila Express CT20 1LLRetailers - other260 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Nov 2025
Premier Alexander Wine CT19 5NHRetailers - other280 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Jun 2024
McArdle Pharmacy CT19 5NJRetailers - other290 mExempt
Eastcliff Tavern CT19 6BUPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good20 Aug 2013
Memel Shop CT20 1JXRetailers - other300 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
F51 Sports Park CT20 1SDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

300 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences143
Anti-social behaviour58
Criminal damage and arson21
Other theft18
Public order14
Drugs14
Burglary8
Other crime8
Possession of weapons6
Vehicle crime4
Shoplifting3
Robbery2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rossendale Gardens (41); On or near Queen Street (39); On or near Charlotte Street (35); On or near Ryland Place (31); On or near Peter Street (24).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 361 residents in 157 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3340
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)27%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Harbour Way · Grove Road · Lennard Road · Queen Street · Rossendale Road · Eastfields · Peter Street · Charlotte Street · Martello Road · Ryland Place · Rossendale Gardens · Radnor Bridge Road

All the streets in CT20 and across Folkestone and Hythe.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.