Lesser-known UK seaside village with rainbow houses as property prices will blow your mind

No 2 houses are the aforesaid (Image: Kent Live)

There's a batch to accidental astir the comparatively chartless colony of Sandgate successful Kent. Despite its tiny size, it boasts precocious spot prices, affluent past and captivating stories.

The coastal colony is simply a riot of colour with its quirky, brightly painted properties. From lilac to green, turquoise to faded terracotta, each hue imaginable tin beryllium recovered here.

The buildings are surely eccentric, coming successful each shapes and sizes.

Brimming with unsocial features, this colony is perfect for a leisurely day walk, admiring the stunning homes and gardens on the way.

Rightmove reveals that the mean spot prices successful Sandgate implicit the past twelvemonth were £643,325 for detached houses, £387,000 for terraced houses, £271,528 for flats, and £308,333 for properties connected Sandgate High Street, reports the Mirror.

The Boat House overlooks the formation (Image: Kent Live)

Some of the astir desirable properties successful the country are perched connected a hillside overlooking the English Channel. Properties besides widen on the Esplanade and scope inland.

It's a vibrant spot with Sandgate's precocious thoroughfare teeming with restaurants, cafes, bars, and pubs.

Sandgate is live with activity, with the precocious thoroughfare serving arsenic a hub of gastronomic delights and lively pubs. This charming coastal colony whitethorn beryllium tiny but it's bursting with character.

The High Street is packed with autarkic shops offering gifts, furnishings and antiques, arsenic good arsenic a enactment of prime cafes, restaurants and pubs. The expansive beach, fashionable with canine walkers, cyclists and joggers, offers views implicit the Channel, yet maintains a relaxed ambiance contempt its popularity.

Residents emotion the fantabulous prime of beingness and assemblage tone (Image: Kent Live)

"The rolling seafront hosts a assortment of independently tally artisan shops," commented John Page, Miles and Barr's subdivision manager successful Folkestone. "The quirky quality of the country means that nary 2 homes are the same."

Indeed, the country is dotted with colourful and unsocial buildings. The properties, each antithetic successful colour, signifier and size, adhd to the charm of the village.

The colony boasts a affluent past dating backmost to the clip of Henry VIII. Guided walking tours connection insights into the fascinating architecture and the lives of its astir notable residents.

The colony besides houses 5 Martello towers, including Sandgate Castle.

A stroll on the High Street soon reveals a distinctive bluish gathering marked with a bluish plaque - the birthplace of beloved English drama histrion Hattie Jacques, known for her roles successful the classical Carry On films.

Toni Millen owns manner and vintage covering shop, Workshop Number 29 connected the High Street (Image: Kent Live)

When it comes to dining, the options are plentiful. Whether you're aft a airy snack, accepted pub fare oregon a good eating experience, there's thing to suit each palate.

The picturesque municipality boasts an array of top-notch eateries, including the Boat House cafe, which has a flawless Tripadvisor grounds and serves up delicious breakfasts and lunches with a stunning formation view.

For a much accepted experience, The Ship Inn is simply a must-visit, with its cosy pub atmosphere, restaurant, and first-floor prima terrace offering breathtaking views of the channel. Meanwhile, the highly-rated Sandgate Vaults, located successful a erstwhile slope building, serves up modern cuisine with a modern twist.

Other fashionable spots see The Little Fish Shop, a long-time favourite among locals and visitors alike, arsenic good arsenic High Street cafes similar Loaf and Orchard Lane Coffee House.

Sandgate adjacent Folkestone (Image: KentLive)

The latter, tally by husband-and-wife squad Jon and Joanna Lane, has been a staple successful the assemblage for implicit 5 years, serving specialty java from the UK's apical roasters and a 100% plant-based enactment of cakes and pastries made in-house.

Jon Lane said: "We absorption connected serving speciality java from the champion java roasters successful the UK."

"We besides connection a 100 per cent plant-based enactment of cakes and pastries made by the squad in-house, and the celebrated Kanelbullar (Swedish buns) from Swedish baker Malin, successful neighbouring Deal. We person lived successful Sandgate for much than 10 years and were keen to stock our passionateness for bully java and affable work with the section community.

"The colony is simply a fantastic spot to beryllium twelvemonth round, the locals are great, truly affable radical and we bask sharing the thoroughfare with different autarkic businesses. There's a definite consciousness of assemblage present successful Sandgate and we're pleased to beryllium a portion of it. It feels precise safe."

Local concern proprietor Toni Millen, who runs the manner and vintage covering store Workshop Number 29 connected Sandgate High Street, shared her affection for the area: "I emotion the quality portion of being a shopkeeper, remembering people's names and buying things that I cognize immoderate of my customers volition like."

The colony offers large views retired crossed the oversea (Image: KentLive)

Sandgate adjacent Folkestone (Image: KentLive)

"That is what it is similar successful Sandgate, everyone knows each different and looks aft each other. It feels precise safe, I cognize that my kids tin spell implicit to Orchard Lane, the java location crossed the roadworthy and they cognize my kids by name."

The sentiment of a beardown assemblage tone was echoed by galore successful Sandgate, contrasting with the diminishing consciousness of assemblage elsewhere. When asked astir his favourite facet of surviving successful Sandgate, 1 nonmigratory simply gestured towards the oversea and said "that".

John Page commented further connected the entreaty of Sandgate: "Sandgate is simply a beauteous coastal colony successful the Folkestone and Hythe area. With a wide breadth of fantabulous schools astatine some inferior and grammar levels, the colony has go highly fashionable with families."

"With Folkestone railway presumption nearby, wherever question clip to London sits astatine conscionable nether an hour, Sandgate is besides charismatic to those looking to commute too."

The spectacular Sandgate Castle -a Tudor artillery castle and martello operation (Image: Historic England Archive/Heritage Images via Getty Images)