Downs Road Ramsgate, Thanet

74 addresses across 5 postcodes (CT11), about 360 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 40300421.

98 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £432,000 across 1 sale. 42 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 24, E: 6, F: 3, G: 1). 8 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Thanet costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 41% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Ramsgate, about 1.4 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Court Stairs Park, is about 330 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. The nearest GP surgery is Newington Road Surgery, about 1.4 km away. About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 37 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
20261£432,000£432,000£432,000
20253£242,000£179,000£355,000
20241£260,000£260,000£260,000
20224£380,000£250,000£460,000
20213£341,000£220,000£365,000
20203£332,000£180,000£350,000
20191£270,000£270,000£270,000
20186£286,250£175,000£515,000
20175£262,000£205,000£335,000
20163£287,500£287,000£410,000
20155£220,000£120,000£285,000
20143£250,000£123,000£335,000
Most recent sales (98)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 May 202625 CT11 0LSDetached£432,000
31 Jul 202569 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£242,000
29 Jul 20257 CT11 0LSOther£310,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 202552 CT11 0LTDetached£355,000
19 Mar 20251, TAVERN COTTAGE CT11 0LXFlat or maisonette£179,000
19 Apr 20243, TAVERN COTTAGE CT11 0LXTerraced£260,000
21 Jul 202260 CT11 0LTDetached£460,000
25 Mar 202236 CT11 0LTDetached£440,000
3 Feb 202257 CT11 0LUTerraced£250,000
12 Jan 202247 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£320,000
29 Jun 20217A CT11 0LSDetached£365,000
25 Jun 202153 CT11 0LUTerraced£220,000
25 May 202162 CT11 0LTDetached£341,000
18 Dec 202032 CT11 0LTDetached£350,000
15 Oct 202050 CT11 0LTDetached£332,000
20 Jul 202053 CT11 0LUTerraced£180,000
20 Mar 201910 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£270,000
7 Nov 201839 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£312,500
20 Sep 201849 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£272,500
25 May 201841 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£252,500
20 Apr 20181, TAVERN COTTAGE CT11 0LXFlat or maisonette£175,000
25 Jan 20182 CT11 0LUDetached£515,000
22 Jan 201814 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£300,000
29 Sep 201714 CT11 0LUOther£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Sep 201751 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£262,000
12 Jun 201757A CT11 0LUDetached£205,000
6 Jun 201763 CT11 0LUDetached£300,000
19 May 201729 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£335,000
28 Apr 20175 CT11 0LSSemi-detached£225,000
10 Aug 201646 CT11 0LTDetached£287,500
21 Jun 20164 CT11 0LUDetached£410,000
19 Apr 201636 CT11 0LTDetached£287,000
7 Dec 201557B CT11 0LUDetached£220,000
2 Nov 201517 CT11 0LSDetached£233,000
2 Oct 20157A CT11 0LSDetached£285,000
7 Jul 201533 CT11 0LUDetached£120,000
19 Jun 201553 CT11 0LUTerraced£160,000
25 Sep 201429 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£250,000
17 Apr 20142, TAVERN COTTAGE CT11 0LXTerraced£123,000
28 Feb 20142 CT11 0LUDetached£335,000
7 Oct 201335 CT11 0LUDetached£213,000
29 Jul 201355 CT11 0LUTerraced£110,000
23 Nov 201269 CT11 0LUSemi-detached£125,000
12 Aug 20111 CT11 0LSSemi-detached£155,000
22 Dec 20101, TAVERN COTTAGE CT11 0LXFlat or maisonette£112,000
6 Aug 20103 CT11 0LSSemi-detached£122,000
9 Mar 20103 CT11 0LSSemi-detached£152,000
4 Feb 201046 CT11 0LTSemi-detached£232,000
30 Jan 200945 CT11 0LUTerraced£152,500
19 Mar 200840 CT11 0LTDetached£249,995

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

42 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (15); House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, detached (6). Built: 1930-1949 (13); 1900-1929 (8); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (33); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Thanet in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,661£1,937£2,214£2,491£3,044£3,598£4,152£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (29% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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): Ramsgate ED.
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 9 September 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
CT11 0LUnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 3 unlikely
CT11 0LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT11 0LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT11 0LXnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 0 unlikely
CT11 0LDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

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
CT11 0LD100%74%74%0%
CT11 0LS100%100%100%0%
CT11 0LT100%41%41%0%
CT11 0LU100%100%100%0%
CT11 0LX100%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 stationsRamsgate 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Thanet Parkway 124,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km
Dumpton Park 45,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m, 23 within 800 m; nearest The Chilton Tavern Ramsgate130 m
Bus or coach stationCecil Street Council Offices Margate6.4 km
Ferry terminalRamsgate Ferry Terminal1.4 km
Car parksParking space on Wilfred Road1.2 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.4 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN55.5 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN101.3 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Newington Road Surgery1.4 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Courts Pharmacy1.0 km
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Newington Road Dental Clinic1.1 km
HospitalQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital5.3 km
Police stationRamsgate Police Station1.8 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Ramsgate Cashzone940 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 garden6 within 800 m; nearest Court Stairs Park 6,900 m²330 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 1.4 ha530 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 160 m²420 m
Playing fieldWarre Recreation Ground 2.9 ha1.1 km
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Chilton Lane East Allotments 2.4 ha230 m

Within 800 m: 6 parks and gardens, 5.4 hectares in all.

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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Chilton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11220 m No published inspection
Christ Church Church of England Junior School, RamsgatePrimary7–11820 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ellington Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.0 km No published inspection
St Laurence In Thanet Church of England Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.1 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newington Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km No published inspection
Priory Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 km No published inspection
Ramsgate Arts Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km No published inspection
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km No overall grade (Sep 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Chilton County Primary School CT11 0LQSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
The Learning Tree CT11 0LQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good14 Feb 2019
Dil Se Catering CT11 0JLOther catering premises260 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
ChristChurch School Breakfast Club CT11 0DNSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good20 May 2025
The Sir Stanley Gray CT11 0NJPub/bar/nightclub410 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Belle Vue Tavern CT11 0NJPub/bar/nightclub410 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
Rent A Bar Units 123 CT11 0EEMobile caterer470 m5 Very good21 Oct 2024

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.

37 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Other crime3
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs2
Other theft1
Public order1
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chilton Lane (13); On or near Curlinge Court (5); On or near Lauriston Close (4); On or near Downs Road (4); On or near Convent Walk (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 571 residents in 261 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 age5140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Convent Walk · Mayforth Gardens · Kevin Drive · Mark Avenue · Senlac Close · Smugglers Close · Curlinge Court · Saxon Road · Goodwin Road · Warwick Drive · Lauriston Close · Chilton Lane

All the streets in CT11 and across Thanet.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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