Effingham Crescent Dover

73 addresses across 6 postcodes (CT17), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11300441.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 9, E: 1).
  • Flood: 13 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 A; Band D in Dover costs £2,462 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 33% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dover Priory, about 300 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Maison Dieu Gardens, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 43 of its 73 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pencester Surgery, about 250 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 564 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£350,000£350,000£350,000
20211£507,000£507,000£507,000
20181£300,000£300,000£300,000
20161£275,000£275,000£275,000
20071£163,000£163,000£163,000
20062£249,998£249,995£250,000
20052£251,500£163,000£340,000
20031£150,000£150,000£150,000
20023£171,000£50,000£207,000
20001£115,000£115,000£115,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 202614 CT17 9RHTerraced£350,000
4 Mar 20218 CT17 9RHDetached£507,000
10 Aug 201810 CT17 9RHTerraced£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jun 201815 CT17 9RHTerraced£300,000
1 Jul 201615 CT17 9RHTerraced£275,000
30 Nov 2015BASEMENT FLAT, 12 CT17 9RHTerraced£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Sep 2007BASEMENT FLAT, 17 CT17 9RHTerraced£163,000
30 May 20069 CT17 9RHTerraced£250,000
20 Feb 200610 CT17 9RHTerraced£249,995
27 May 20058 CT17 9RHDetached£340,000
16 Feb 200518 CT17 9RHTerraced£163,000
1 May 200313 CT17 9RHTerraced£150,000
28 Nov 20028 CT17 9RHDetached£207,000
22 Jul 200211 CT17 9RHTerraced£171,000
16 Apr 20022 CT17 9RHTerraced£50,000
3 Apr 200015 CT17 9RHTerraced£115,000

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 September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: Flat (9); House, mid-terrace (3); Maisonette, not recorded (3). Built: before 1900 (16); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Dover in 2026-27: Band D £2,462 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,641£1,915£2,188£2,462£3,009£3,556£4,103£4,923

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 1,520 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Dover - Dover College. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 13 at medium risk and 2 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.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 6 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
CT17 9RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 13 / 2 possible
CT17 9RLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT17 9RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT17 9RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT17 0RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT17 9RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible

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 73 addresses are between 8 m and 28 m above sea level (10 m on average); the ground rises about 20 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
CT17 0RH100%100%100%0%
CT17 9RH100%100%100%0%
CT17 9RL100%100%100%0%
CT17 9RU67%33%33%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 stationsDover Priory 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25300 m
Kearsney (Kent) 48,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Martin Mill 68,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ladywell Dover140 m
Ferry terminalDover Western Docks Ferry Terminal1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ladywell Car Park140 m
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN65.3 km (41 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW105 km (65 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pencester Surgery250 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots200 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dover Priory Dental Practice40 m
HospitalBuckland Community Hospital Cdc1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationPolice110 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Priory Service Station Cashzone170 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Maison Dieu Gardens 1,790 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 26 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m²310 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,360 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,810 m²460 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 54 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is People of Dover war memorial, a listed building (Grade II*), 60 m north-east. 91 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
People of Dover war memorialListed building, Grade II*60 m north-east
St Edmunds ChapelListed building, Grade II*70 m east
Maison DieuScheduled monument80 m north-east
Maison Dieu HouseListed building, Grade II*80 m north-east
Dover Town Hall, including the remains of the medieval Maison DieuListed building, Grade I90 m north-east
St Martin's Priory (remains of)Scheduled monument130 m south-west
The Painted House, N of Market StreetScheduled monument330 m south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wellington DockLake or reservoir820 m (0.5 miles) south
Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Hole CoombeValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Edinburgh HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Coombe DownWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Langdon BayBay2.8 km (1.7 miles) 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
60 to 64160
55 to 59271
Under 553072

43 of the street's 73 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 from railways, 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 Dover: see them on the Dover 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
St Richard's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dover Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–18690 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Priory Fields SchoolPrimary4–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Charlton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Edmund's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18950 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Vale View Community SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dover Grammar School for BoysSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Astor Secondary SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Martin's SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 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
The Nook CT16 1DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Dover College CT17 9RHSchool/college/university50 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Red Shop CT16 1DPRetailers - other50 m5 Very good29 Aug 2024
The Prince Albert CT16 1BBPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Biggin Fish and Chips CT16 1BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Dover Town Hall CT16 1DLOther catering premises70 m4 Good18 Dec 2018
Dover Sea Angling Association CT17 9RGPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good29 Aug 2024
Dover Food and Wine CT16 1DRRetailers - other90 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jun 2025
Rotherwood Butchers CT16 1BDManufacturers/packers100 m5 Very good15 May 2025
Greggs CT16 1BBManufacturers/packers110 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
Future Foundry CT16 1DBOther catering premises120 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Turkish delight CT16 1DRTakeaway/sandwich shop120 mAwaiting inspection
Calcutta Port CT16 1DRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Fairy Dreams CT16 1BDRetailers - other130 m5 Very good4 Jul 2024
nexgen crazy golf CT16 1BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good4 Feb 2025

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.

564 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences167
Anti-social behaviour138
Shoplifting82
Other theft48
Criminal damage and arson40
Drugs27
Public order23
Vehicle crime8
Other crime7
Burglary6
Possession of weapons5
Robbery5
Bicycle theft5
Theft from the person3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Worthington Street (73); On or near Queen'S Gardens (72); On or near Edwards Road (69); On or near Petrol Station (53); On or near Maison Dieu Place (40).

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: 836 residents in 351 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)46%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 7 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

High Street · Norman Street · Priory Road · Ladywell · Effingham Street · Queen Victoria Row · Priory Grove · Victoria Crescent · Saxon Street · Priory Street · Biggin Street · York Street

All the streets in CT17 and across Dover.

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.