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Get started8 Folly Crescent is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Highworth, Swindon, Swindon (SN6 7JW). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Swindon HPI: 5.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£302/sq ft) was about 52.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: November 2023 at £280,000.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Council records include a two-storey side extension at 8 Folly Crescent.
Extension: Two storey · Side of property
Erection of a two-storey side extension.
8 Folly Crescent has more than tripled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1998.
£305,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.5% per year over 25 years.
£280,000
Growth on file: 5.5% per year over 25 years.
Years Held for 8 Folly Crescent lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,256
Street avg £2,957
Floor Area
86 m²
Street avg 84 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.4dB

29 November 2023Most recent
£280,000
+110.5%over 21 years12 July 2002
£133,000
+83.4%over 4 years3 July 1998
£72,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in SN6 7JW: £268,000 (2023–2018).
CO₂ Emissions
3.5 t/year
Street avg 4.5 t/year
SN6 7HN
Folly Crescent — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Westrop Primary & Nursery School. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.9dB
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