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SRA-regulated solicitors in Dover: 9 firms reporting residential property
12 authorised firms with a practising office in the Dover district on 3 November 2026, from the SRA's own data feed. Conveyancing firms first, ordered by distance from the centre of the district's offices; every one must publish its prices under the SRA Transparency Rules.
On 3 November 2026 the SRA register listed 12 authorised firms with a practising office in Dover, operating 14 offices between them. 9 firms report residential property work in the most recent annual return, 11 list a website and 7 have more than one practising office. By authorisation type the district splits into 8 recognised body, 2 recognised sole practice and 2 licensed body.
The longest-standing authorisation in the district dates from November 2011 and the most recent from January 2025; 0 firms were authorised in the twelve months before the snapshot. 5 of the 12 firms carry a company registration number that matched a Companies House record. The most commonly reported areas of law here are residential property (9), family (8), commercial property (8), employment (7) and wills and trusts (7).
Every one of the 9 firms reporting residential property work is required by the SRA Transparency Rules to publish its conveyancing prices on its website, or to supply them on request where it has none. 9 of them list a website in the register. For context, the national purchase legal fee on this site averages £1,575 plus VAT (range £1,200 to £2,500).
National purchase legal fee: £1,575 average, range £1,200 to £2,500 plus VAT, before disbursements. See the conveyancing fee guide and calculator.
Firms reporting residential property work in Dover
Our conveyancing price-page check has not reached Dover yet, so no firm here carries the published-prices badge. Every firm below still has the same duty under the SRA Transparency Rules; ask for the figures in writing, and see the register hub for how far the check has got.
12 of 12 firms plotted at their Dover office, 9 of them reporting residential property. Hover a row to find it on the map.
pinned on the office postcode postcode did not resolve, so the pin marks the area and not the door
Outline: Dover district outline (ONS E07000108). On the still map, offices sharing a point are drawn once; the interactive map plots every one and groups them as you zoom out.
Map tiles: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
| Firm | Office in Dover | From centre | Authorised | Also reported | Prices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williamson & Barnes | Deal CT14 6EU Head office | 4.8 km | Recognised body since 2011 | FamilyProbateWills and trusts | Website |
| Hardmans | Deal CT14 6AQ Head office | 4.9 km | Recognised body since 2011 | Wills and trustsFamily | Website |
| Hardmans & Co | Deal CT14 6EL Head office | 4.9 km | Recognised sole practice since 2015 | ProbateFamilyWills and trusts | Website |
| Mowll Limited t/a Mowll & Mowll | Dover CT16 3PN Head office | 6.3 km | Recognised body since 2013 | ProbateFamilyWills and trusts | Website |
| Stilwell & Singleton LLP t/a Stilwell & Singleton | Dover CT16 1RT Head office (+2 more here) | 7.9 km | Recognised body since 2019 | Wills and trustsFamilyProbate | Website |
| Brachers LLP | Dover CT16 1RW Branch | 8.0 km | Licensed body since 2025 | FamilyWills and trusts | Website |
| Pigotts | Dover CT16 1DU Head office | 8.0 km | Recognised body since 2011 | none reported | Website |
| Browan Solicitors Limited | Kent CT16 1PW Branch | 8.1 km | Licensed body since 2017 | Family | Website |
| Frederic Hall Solicitors | Dover CT16 1BB Branch | 8.1 km | Recognised body since 2011 | Wills and trustsProbateFamily | Website |
"From centre" is the straight-line distance from the mean position of all practising offices in the district. Rows without a link are firms whose SRA record is too sparse for a page of their own. "Also reported" shows probate, wills and family where the firm reported them. The "Prices published" badge means we read a conveyancing price page on that firm's own website and confirmed what it covers; a firm without one may still publish prices we did not find. Hover or tap a row to find that office on the map.
Other SRA-regulated firms with an office in Dover (3, no residential property reported)
Published conveyancing fees near Dover
3 firms within 25 km of the centre of the Dover district publish, on their own websites, a freehold purchase fee that covers a £300,000 property. The SRA Transparency Rules require the figure; we read each page and show the fee as the firm printed it, with the page and the date. Ordered by that published fee, lowest first. A range or "from" price is placed by its lower figure and labelled; a firm with a band table shows the band its own table assigns to £300,000. Other services, other prices and your own postcode are on the published-fee comparison.
| Firm | Published fee at £300,000 | Basis | Office | From centre | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederic Hall Solicitors SRA 50450 | £725 to £1,550 + VAT | range · Residential conveyancing - freehold purchase, legal fees | Folkestone | 17.7 km | www.frederic-hall.co.uk, read 19 October 2026 |
| Robinson Allfree Solicitors SRA 54404 | from £900.00 + VAT | from · Residential conveyancing - purchase of a freehold house more than 10 years old, minimum legal fee · +1 more on the firm page | Ramsgate | 16.1 km | robinson-allfree.co.uk, read 16 October 2026 |
| Pigotts SRA 68412 | £1100 to £1300 + VAT | range · Freehold purchase - legal fee, property price £250,000 - £350,000 | Dover | 8.0 km | www.pigotts.co.uk, read 7 October 2026 |
Prices the firms themselves publish under the SRA Transparency Rules, read from their websites on the dates shown and reproduced unchanged. They are not quotes, we have not asked the firms for quotes, and no firm paid to appear or to be placed higher. Assumes a registered freehold property, one buyer, no mortgage and no supplements unless the firm's label says otherwise; disbursements, Stamp Duty Land Tax and Land Registry fees are not included. "From centre" is the straight-line distance from the mean position of the district's practising offices to the firm's head office. See how the fees firms publish compare across England and Wales.
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Before you instruct a firm
- Check the firm on the SRA register (each firm page links to its entry) and confirm the SRA number on the firm's website matches.
- Read the published price page: it must show the total or a range, hourly rates or fixed fees, disbursements, VAT and timescales. See how to compare conveyancing quotes.
- A conveyancer does not need to be local; compare at least three written quotes, including an online conveyancer.
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Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 3 November 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.