A268 Rye, Rother

38 addresses across 5 postcodes (TN31), about 830 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 32500455.

  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 4, E: 7, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 C; Band D in Rother costs £2,701 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rye (Sussex), about 780 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rye Community Garden, is about 540 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 53 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rye Medical Centre, about 460 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 1,230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 10 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 161 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, detached (3); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (5); before 1900 (3); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Rother in 2026-27: Band D £2,701 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,801£2,101£2,401£2,701£3,301£3,901£4,502£5,402

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (25% of about 2,810 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Rye (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 14.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Rother District Council (Rye Conservation Area, Rye, East Sussex) Article 4 Direction, 2007, Rother District Council (Rye Town, East Sussex) Article 4 (No. 1) Direction, 1991.
  • Tree preservation orders: 44 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

  • 16 July 2026 to 22 September 2026: EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 1 October 2026 to 10 October 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 19 October 2026 to 24 October 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 11 August 2026: NETWORK RAIL, Optional permit (no fee) e.g. for traffic management etc, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 8 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 8 very low.

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
TN31 7NHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN31 7HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN31 7NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN31 7LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
TN31 7NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 38 addresses are between 5 m and 53 m above sea level (32 m on average); the ground rises about 48 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
TN31 7HP100%100%100%0%
TN31 7LR100%100%100%0%
TN31 7NH100%65%65%0%
TN31 7NJ100%50%50%0%
TN31 7NP100%100%100%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 stationsRye (Sussex) 480,000 journeys in 2024–25780 m
Winchelsea 19,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km
Doleham 1,710 journeys in 2024–259.9 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 12 within 800 m; nearest Rye Hill150 m
Bus or coach stationWinchelsea - New Inn4.0 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Car Park on Cinque Ports Street, TN31760 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Roam EV Charging Station770 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW67.9 km

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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Rye Medical Centre460 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots870 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery830 m
HospitalRye Memorial Hospital260 m
Police stationRye Police Station780 m
Cash machinesJempsons, Peasmarsh Cashzone4.0 km

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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Rye Community Garden 2,610 m²540 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,950 m²680 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha510 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Love Lane Allotments 9,880 m²570 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Rye Hill medieval pottery and tilery, 60m south of Spains, a scheduled monument, 180 m south. 213 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 4 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rye Hill medieval pottery and tilery, 60m south of SpainsScheduled monument180 m south
The Parish Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade I410 m north
The Land GateScheduled monument680 m south
The LandgateListed building, Grade I680 m south
Austin Friars ChapelScheduled monument790 m south
104 AND 104A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)Listed building, Grade II*860 m south
Rye Working Men's Conservative ClubListed building, Grade I860 m south
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Point HillHill100 m north-east
Rye HillHill350 m north-west
Rye HarbourTidal water1.2 km south-east
Hoad Mill BottomValley1.3 km north-west
Gibbet MarshWetland1.3 km south-west
Secret WoodWood1.4 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)5.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
65 to 6980
60 to 6440
55 to 5980
Under 551738

21 of the street's 38 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
Rye CollegeSecondary11–16480 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rye Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11590 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Kings Head TN31 7NHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house130 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Saltcote Place B&B TN31 7NRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Rother Meads Tennis Club Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good3 Feb 2022
The Pink Kitchen Other catering premises350 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Rye Memorial Care Centre TN31 7NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Sanctuary Group TN31 7SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Pugwash Nursery TN31 7NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m5 Very good7 Jun 2024
Rye College TN31 7NQSchool/college/university480 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025

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.

10 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson7
Violence and sexual offences2
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fair Meadow (9); On or near Hilltop Drive (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,225 residents in 634 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 age5940
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over38%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 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.

  • TN31 7NH: 30 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • TN31 7HP: 3 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • TN31 7NJ: 3 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • TN31 7LR: 1 address of 20 in the postcode
  • TN31 7NP: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mill Road · Fair Meadow · Point Hill · Saltcote Lane · New England Lane · Hillcrest · Hilltop Drive · Rye Hill · Deadmans Lane · Old School Place

All the streets in TN31 and across Rother.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.