Ravenlea Road Folkestone

38 addresses across 6 postcodes (CT20), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34500920.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £347,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (B: 19, C: 2, D: 1, E: 2).
  • Flood: 5 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 G; 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 West, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 360 m away, and Lower Leas Coastal Park (18 hectares) is about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sandgate Road, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 36 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
20112£347,000£340,000£354,000
20101£475,000£475,000£475,000
20061£470,000£470,000£470,000
20031£287,500£287,500£287,500
19981£105,000£105,000£105,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Jul 20119 CT20 2JUDetached£354,000
24 Jun 20117 CT20 2JUDetached£340,000
24 Jun 201012 CT20 2JUDetached£475,000
21 Nov 200612 CT20 2JUDetached£470,000
30 May 20031A CT20 2JUDetached£287,500New build.
30 Apr 199812 CT20 2JUDetached£105,000

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 140 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (19); House, detached (5). Built: 2015 (9); 2016 (9); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

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 G (28% of about 760 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 October 2026: AFFINITY WATER - SOUTH EAST, Permanent reinstatement, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 10 September 2026: AFFINITY WATER - SOUTH EAST, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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 2DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 2JUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 2PFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 2UTnot in 2 or 3
CT20 2DFnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 2NHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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.

© 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 38 addresses are between 45 m and 48 m above sea level (46 m on average).

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 2DF100%100%100%0%
CT20 2DG100%100%100%0%
CT20 2JU100%100%100%0%
CT20 2NH100%100%100%0%
CT20 2PF100%100%100%0%
CT20 2UT100%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 West 970,000 journeys in 2024–25480 m (0.3 miles)
Folkestone Central 817,000 journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ravenlea Road Folkestone150 m
Ferry terminalFolkestone Eurotunnel Terminal3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa470 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points20 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Civic Centre Visitors Car Park770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN63.3 km (39 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW94.5 km (59 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 Sandgate Road690 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Folkestone Pharmacy690 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bupa Dental Care Folkestone1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalRoyal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone)880 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationFolkestone Police Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1 km (0.6 miles)

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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lower Leas Coastal Park 18 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,580 m²330 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,560 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Holy Trinity, a listed building (Grade II*), 830 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 32 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Martello tower no 4, Cliff Road, FolkestoneScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) south
Martello tower no 5 at Folkestone School for GirlsScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Sandgate CastleScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fishing PondLake or reservoir780 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Boating PondLake or reservoir830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Radnor CliffCliff or slope1 km (0.6 miles) south
Castle HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) north
Sandgate beachBeach2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Argrove WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north

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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 553238

6 of the street's 38 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), 3 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
The Harvey Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Sandgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Morehall Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Folkestone School for GirlsSecondary11–18920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Turner Free SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Folkestone AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 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 PrimaryPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Soul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mundella Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Eanswythe's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Cumbria House CT20 2PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Folkestone Care Centre CT20 2NBOther catering premises230 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Morrisons CT19 5JSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good14 Nov 2025
Earlscliffe CT20 2NBSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good29 Feb 2024
Harvey Grammar School CT19 5JYSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good11 Jan 2024
EKC Folkestone College CT20 2TZSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Feb 2024
Wells Lodge Nursing Home CT20 2HAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2025
Go Go Espresso Takeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Coffee Kiosk - Coffee Folkes Takeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2022
Three Hills Sports Park Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Mar 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.

36 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour8
Vehicle crime5
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs1
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Marten Road (15); On or near Foster Way (7); On or near Ravenlea Road (4); On or near Cheriton Road (4); On or near Shorncliffe Road (2).

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: 663 residents in 263 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 age4440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: AFFINITY WATER - SOUTH EAST: Permanent reinstatement, 13 October 2026 to 14 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

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

Broadfield Road · Marten Road · Foster Way · Hayward Gardens · Broadfield Crescent · Westbrook Drive · Cheriton Road · Curzon Avenue · Godwyn Gardens · Grimston Avenue · Wellfield Road · Earl's Avenue

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.