Shellons Street Folkestone

33 addresses across 3 postcodes (CT20), about 220 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 34501010.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2003 the median was £120,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 3).
  • Flood: 3 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 Folkestone and Hythe costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Folkestone Central, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Payers Park, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 31 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Harbour Medical Practice, about 170 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 757 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
20031£120,000£120,000£120,000
20021£235,000£235,000£235,000
19992£128,000£46,000£210,000
19971£90,000£90,000£90,000
19961£32,500£32,500£32,500
19951£20,000£20,000£20,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Mar 20184 CT20 1BPOther£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 20171 CT20 1BWOther£268,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jul 2003FLAT ABOVE, 3 CT20 1BWTerraced£120,000
26 Jul 2002FLAT 1, 5 - 7 CT20 1BWTerraced£235,000
13 Aug 1999FLAT 1, 5 - 7 CT20 1BWTerraced£210,000
6 Aug 1999FLAT B, 1 CT20 1BWSemi-detached£46,000
9 May 1997FLAT 1, 7 CT20 1BWTerraced£90,000
29 Feb 1996FLAT 1, 5 - 7 CT20 1BWTerraced£32,500
24 Oct 1995FLAT 1, 7 CT20 1BWTerraced£20,000

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.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 43 m². Most common: Flat (8); Maisonette, end-terrace (1); Maisonette, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1900-1929 (3); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (1).

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 A (58% of about 1,020 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 6 April 2025 to 9 November 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the footway (minor works)
  • 16 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the footway (minor 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 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 1BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 1BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 1AUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 27 m and 34 m above sea level (31 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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 1AU7%0%0%0%
CT20 1BP75%0%0%0%
CT20 1BW100%0%0%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 2024–25740 m (0.5 miles)
Folkestone West 970,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lidl Folkestone10 m
Ferry terminalFolkestone Eurotunnel Terminal4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shellons Street Car Park80 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Upper Payers Car Park170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN64.1 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW95.9 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harbour Medical Practice170 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots200 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portman Smile Clinic Folkestone110 m
HospitalRoyal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone)780 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationFolkestone Police Station900 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone210 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payers Park 2,980 m²170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lower Leas Coastal Park 18 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest F51 1,880 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canterbury Road Recreation Ground 1.8 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.7 ha910 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 18 and 20, Church Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m south-east. 86 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*260 m south-east
The Parish Church of St Mary and St EanswytheListed building, Grade II*320 m south-east
Folkestone War MemorialListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) south
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*490 m (0.3 miles) south
Two Martello towers, East CliffScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
An unenclosed Iron Age urnfield and Roman villa, 60m ESE of No.64 Wear Bay RoadScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Martello tower no 4, Cliff Road, FolkestoneScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bayle PondLake or reservoir310 m south-east
Folkestone BeachBeach800 m (0.5 miles) east
Fishing PondLake or reservoir820 m (0.5 miles) north-west
West CliffCliff or slope840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Sugarloaf HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
The WarrenWood2.8 km (1.8 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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
70 to 7430
65 to 69280
Under 55233

31 of the street's 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Eanswythe's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m No published inspection
Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone Church of EnglandPrimary4–11340 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Mundella Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Castle Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 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
Martello PrimaryPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
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 SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Sandgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 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

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
Tofts Cafe Bar CT20 1HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good12 Sep 2023
Londis Folkestone CT20 1HARetailers - other70 m4 Good5 Dec 2025
Mayfair Newsagents CT20 1EERetailers - other70 m4 Good16 May 2025
Folkey Coffee CT20 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Yoke CT20 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good5 Sep 2024
The Full English CT20 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good25 Nov 2023
Trinity CT20 1EBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good30 Aug 2024
Harbourcraft CT20 1EBRetailers - other100 m5 Very good15 May 2026
Cafe Tulip CT20 1BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2026
Flo's Pie and Mash CT20 1EBOther catering premises110 m4 Good31 Mar 2026
Hinxhill Fields CT20 1HSManufacturers/packers120 m5 Very good22 Nov 2023
The Lord Morris CT20 1EAPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Folkestone Palace Amusements CT20 1EZRetailers - other130 mExempt
Aya Supermarket CT20 1EARetailers - other130 m5 Very good16 Feb 2024
Rania Market CT20 1DZRetailers - other130 m4 Good23 May 2023

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.

757 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences247
Anti-social behaviour155
Shoplifting116
Criminal damage and arson63
Other theft37
Public order36
Drugs27
Burglary17
Other crime16
Vehicle crime13
Possession of weapons10
Robbery9
Theft from the person6
Bicycle theft5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (194); On or near Shopping Area (59); On or near A2033 (54); On or near Rendezvous Street (51); On or near Foord Road South (49).

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: 472 residents in 256 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 age3440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented76%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • CT20 1BW: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • CT20 1BP: 8 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • CT20 1AU: 1 address of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Foresters Way · Copthall Gardens · Grace Hill · Foord Road South · Guildhall Street · Spring Terrace · St Eanswythe Way · New Street · Rendezvous Street · Gloucester Place · Victoria Grove · Market Place

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.