The Spinney, Shore Road, Castletown, Isle Of Man

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Description

The Spinney, Shore Road, Castletown is a spacious four-bedroom detached home located in the heart of Castletown, just a short, level walk from the town centre. With easy access to shops, schools, pubs, and public transport, including the main bus route and nearby airport, this home offers both convenience and excellent connectivity. Set back from the road, the property features an in-and-out driveway offering ample parking. A bright entrance porch leads into the main hallway with stairs to the first floor, under-stair storage, and a cloakroom with WC. From here, doors open into the living room and kitchen. The front-facing living room is light and welcoming, with a central gas fireplace and double doors opening into the spacious kitchen dining room. The kitchen, with fitted units and generous workspace, flows into a reception area ideal for dining and relaxation. Glazed doors lead into a south-facing conservatory, which opens directly onto the rear garden, creating a seamless indoor-outdoor living experience. Off the kitchen is a utility room with additional storage, sink, and access to the rear garden. It also houses the oil-fired central heating system and mega flow. A door from the utility room connects to a ground-floor en-suite bedroom with private access from the driveway—perfect for independent living or annex use. Upstairs, the large master bedroom includes two wardrobes and dual en-suites—one with a shower and one with a bath. Two further double bedrooms, each with fitted wardrobes, and a family shower room complete the upper floor. Outside, the property boasts an enclosed, south-facing rear garden with patio and shed. The in-and-out driveway enhances accessibility, and two garages on either side of the house provide excellent storage or development potential.

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Nearby

SchoolVictoria Road Primary School0.25 mi · 5 min walk · 1 min drive
GP surgeryCastletown Medical Centre0.16 mi · 3 min walk · 1 min drive
DentistPort Erin Dentist (temporary)0.58 mi · 12 min walk · 2 min drive
SupermarketCo-op Food0.62 mi · 13 min walk · 2 min drive
PubThe Viking0.24 mi · 5 min walk · 1 min drive
RestaurantKizuna0.51 mi · 11 min walk · 2 min drive
CaféCosta0.50 mi · 11 min walk · 2 min drive
Petrol stationStation Garage0.21 mi · 4 min walk · 1 min drive
AirportIsle of Man Airport1.2 mi · 4 min drive

Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Isle of Man amenities — not every pub, café or shop on the island, so treat this as a useful sample, not a complete picture. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to the Isle of Man's roads and 25/35mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.

Masts nearby

Communication mastUnnamed on the map0.51 miles away
Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map0.54 miles away
Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map0.61 miles away
Communication towerUnnamed on the map1.1 miles away

Read this before drawing a conclusion. These are masts mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors — 38 communication structures for the whole island, 29 of them tagged as carrying a mobile network. The operators run considerably more sites than that, so a mast not shown here is not evidence there isn't one. There is no official Isle of Man mast register to check against: Ofcom's Sitefinder never covered the island and the Communications Commission publishes no list. Nothing in this data says which generation a mast carries, so none of it can tell you whether a site is 5G.

What the numbers on this listing say

New to this site 2 days ago. Little negotiating history has built up yet.
Freehold. The most straightforward tenure to buy and to lend against. Tenure is as declared by the agent; have your advocate confirm it against the register.

Assembled from this site's own record of the listing and the Isle of Man Government sold-price register. It deliberately makes no recommendation and no valuation — it reports what is measurable and leaves the judgement to you.

What this purchase costs beyond the asking price

Land Registry duty — owner-occupier

£4,200

0.73% of the asking price. The Isle of Man has no stamp duty; this is what replaces it.

…if you are buying from off-island

£23,000

The non-resident rate is double the resident investor rate. It is the biggest single cost difference between buying here from on- and off-island.

Deposit at 10%

£57,500

Lenders here commonly want 10–25%. Change the figure in the calculator below.

Duty is charged in slices, so each rate applies only to the part of the price inside its band. Three categories exist: owner-occupier (nothing on the first £230,000, 1% to £500,000, 2% above) — £4,200 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £11,500; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £23,000. Which one you fall into is a question about you, not about the property, and the Registry decides it. Scale set by the Land, Deeds and Probate Registries (Fees and Duties) Order 2023, in force 1 May 2023 — check the Central Registry's own calculator or ask your advocate for the figure that actually applies. This site is not a tax adviser and takes no fee from anyone named on this page.

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Getting connected

Four providers sell residential broadband on the island: Manx Telecom, Sure, Wi-Manx, BlueWave Communications. Manx Telecom owns and operates the fixed network the others largely resell, so what is physically available at an address is usually a Manx Telecom question whoever ends up billing you.

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What would improving it be worth?

Value added is the extra floor area priced at £2,651/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 28 Isle of Man properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses real Isle of Man build rates: £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Isle of Man actually grants that kind of application.

Improvement	Value it might add	Likely cost	Net	Granted
Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m²	£37,116	£52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000	−£15,384	0% (314)
Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m²	£53,023	£41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000	+£12,023	0% (46)
Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m²	£74,232	£105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000	−£30,768	0% (66)
Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m²	£28,632	£67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000	−£38,868	0% (199)

Read this as an order of magnitude, not a promise

Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale, because the Isle of Man's sold register records no floor areas at all — so it reflects what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.

The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth around £430,000 island-wide. It isn't — a 4-bed is generally a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.

Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — what work of this kind actually gets approved here shows how often applications like yours succeed, and on what grounds the refusals go.

Building work on this property

What work are you considering?

Same estimate model this site uses on its planning pages (UK cost ranges with the Isle of Man's 18% uplift) — a rough starting point, not a quote. Always get quotes from an Isle of Man builder before budgeting.

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Sale history

Sale date	Price	At 2026 prices	Address on register
2009-09-30	£420,000	£587,387 +40%	The Spinney Shore Road Castletown IM9 1BF

Matched by house name/street and parish against the Isle of Man Land Registry's transaction register — not a unique-ID lookup, so a shared house name could span more than one property. The "2026 prices" column carries each price forward at the island-wide repeat-sales index — it is what that sum of money would be at today's market level, not a valuation of this property, and it takes no account of the condition it was in then or any work done since.