Anvil Close Margate, Thanet

19 addresses across 1 postcode (CT7), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40300060.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £255,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 2).
  • 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 B; Band D in Thanet costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 78% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Birchington-On-Sea, about 650 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Birchington Medical Centre, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 89 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£255,000£255,000£255,000
20221£284,995£284,995£284,995
20181£185,000£185,000£185,000
20171£195,000£195,000£195,000
20121£130,000£130,000£130,000
20101£125,000£125,000£125,000
20051£114,995£114,995£114,995
20041£128,500£128,500£128,500
20022£65,475£51,000£79,950
20001£56,000£56,000£56,000
19961£45,000£45,000£45,000
19951£40,500£40,500£40,500
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Oct 202512 CT7 0APTerraced£255,000
17 Jun 202212 CT7 0APTerraced£284,995
1 Mar 20187 CT7 0APTerraced£185,000
6 Jul 201710 CT7 0APTerraced£195,000
24 Sep 201210 CT7 0APTerraced£130,000
24 Mar 201010 CT7 0APTerraced£125,000
24 Jun 200510 CT7 0APTerraced£114,995
24 Sep 20044 CT7 0APSemi-detached£128,500
22 Jul 20024 CT7 0APSemi-detached£51,000
12 Apr 200210 CT7 0APTerraced£79,950
1 Sep 20007 CT7 0APTerraced£56,000
10 Jan 19967 CT7 0APTerraced£45,000
21 Aug 199510 CT7 0APTerraced£40,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 1983-1990 (8); 1976-1982 (4); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (8); owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Thanet in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,661£1,937£2,214£2,491£3,044£3,598£4,152£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (41% of about 800 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Birchington & Rural ED.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026 to 28 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 7 September 2026 to 10 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 23 m and 25 m above sea level (24 m on average).

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
CT7 0AP100%78%78%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 stationsBirchington-On-Sea 350,000 journeys in 2024–25650 m (0.4 miles)
Westgate-On-Sea 199,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Margate 1.3 million journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Square Birchington-on-Sea100 m
Bus or coach stationCecil Street Council Offices Margate5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalRamsgate Ferry Terminal9 km (5.6 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Albion Road Car Park190 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN48 km (30 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN93.6 km (58 miles)

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Birchington Medical Centre760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Courts Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road Dental Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
HospitalQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationMargate Police Station5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Birchington - Station Road Cashzone400 m (0.2 miles)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,550 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²310 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha280 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,470 m²660 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 120 m north-west. 35 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*120 m north-west
Ring ditches and enclosures 500yds (450m) ESE of College FarmScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Group of ring ditches 400yds (360m) NW of Great Brooks End FarmScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Quex Park settlementsScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Epple BayBay1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Grenham BayBay1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Shottendane CopseWood2 km (1.2 miles) east
Minnis BayBay2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Wade MarshWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) west
Telegraph HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). 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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6420
55 to 5970
Under 551019

9 of the street's 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Thanet: see them on the Thanet page.

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
Birchington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11300 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
King Ethelbert SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ursuline College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Saviour's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
New Dragon CT7 9AETakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Mahi Tandoori CT7 9AETakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
The Cow Shed Bar & Grill CT7 9AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good7 May 2026
BIRCHINGTON KEBAB CT7 9AETakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good10 Mar 2025
Wincheap Food Wagon Mobile caterer100 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
The Powell CT7 9AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Morrisons Daily CT7 9ABRetailers - other140 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Village Square Cafe CT7 9ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Fields Cafe CT7 9ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
Smugglers Restaurant CT7 9AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Royal Dragon Chinese Takeaway CT7 9DQTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Noahs Ark Nursery CT7 0ASSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Nourish Catering CT7 0ASSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
JPL Catering Ltd CT7 0ASOther catering premises210 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Birchington Village Bakery CT7 9DQRetailers - other220 m5 Very good16 Jan 2020

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.

89 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour18
Other theft7
Public order5
Drugs4
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Bicycle theft2
Other crime2
Vehicle crime1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Paddock Road (19); On or near The Square (19); On or near Laming Road (8); On or near Yew Tree Gardens (7); On or near Stone Barn Avenue (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 253 residents in 115 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Birchington Blend (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT7 9RA) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Blend Coffee Lounge (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT7 9RA) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

Nearby streets

Canterbury Road · Walnut Tree Close · Ferndale Court · Priory Mews · Sewell Close · Cornford Road · Barrows Close · Linington Road · Minnis Road · Romney Close · Mellanby Close · Phillips Road

All the streets in CT7 and across Thanet.

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 industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

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