Ashdown Road Forest Row, Wealden

41 addresses across 3 postcodes (RH18), about 430 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local access road. USRN 42700267.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £1,122,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 8, E: 4, F: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 G; Band D in Wealden costs £2,728 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, about 5.4 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 76 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 41 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ashdown Forest Health Centre, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 50% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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
20252£1,122,500£825,000£1,420,000
20203£777,500£775,000£915,000
20183£890,000£850,000£895,000
20141£868,000£868,000£868,000
20131£650,000£650,000£650,000
20123£647,600£575,000£730,000
20101£620,000£620,000£620,000
20092£657,500£590,000£725,000
20072£550,000£400,000£700,000
20064£521,500£415,000£670,000
20051£390,000£390,000£390,000
20041£530,000£530,000£530,000
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Oct 2025MARLOCK RH18 5BNDetached£1,420,000
21 Aug 2025HOLLYBECK RH18 5BNDetached£825,000
25 Sep 2020BRACKENSIDE RH18 5BWDetached£775,000
29 Apr 2020THE SPRIG RH18 5BNDetached£777,500
8 Apr 2020RORY COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£915,000
10 Aug 2018THE SONG HOUSE RH18 5BWDetached£890,000
29 Jun 2018WYCHWOOD RH18 5BNDetached£850,000
29 Jan 2018HATHAWAY RH18 5BNDetached£895,000
28 Aug 2014HATHAWAY RH18 5BNDetached£868,000
23 Sep 2013FARRANDENE RH18 5BWDetached£650,000
19 Oct 2012CRAMOND RH18 5BWDetached£575,000
10 Aug 2012YAFFLES RH18 5BNDetached£647,600
29 Jun 2012HAWTHORN COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£730,000
20 Oct 2010FARRANDENE RH18 5BWDetached£620,000
26 Aug 2009HURSTWOOD RH18 5BWDetached£590,000
24 Jul 2009MELSTOCK RH18 5BNDetached£725,000
25 May 2007MARLOCK RH18 5BNDetached£700,000
23 Apr 2007LITTLE DOWNWOOD RH18 5BWDetached£400,000
22 Sep 2006WOODLANDS COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£543,000
9 Jun 2006ST. CLOUD RH18 5BNDetached£670,000
21 Apr 2006RED COTTAGE RH18 5BNDetached£415,000
6 Feb 2006HURSTWOOD RH18 5BWDetached£500,000
21 Jul 2005LITTLE DOWNWOOD RH18 5BWDetached£390,000
8 Jan 2004THE VICARAGE RH18 5BWDetached£530,000
12 Jul 2002THE SONG HOUSE RH18 5BWDetached£415,000
9 Oct 2001NETHERFIELD RH18 5BNDetached£365,000
4 Jul 2001BROOM COTTAGE RH18 5BNDetached£365,000
7 Jan 1999THE SONG HOUSE RH18 5BWDetached£243,000
9 Nov 1998FIRBANK RH18 5BWDetached£290,000
15 Jul 1998MOUNT LODGE RH18 5BWDetached£262,500
29 Jun 1998HAWTHORN COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£350,000
22 May 1998YAFFLES RH18 5BNDetached£247,250
25 Apr 1997HURSTWOOD RH18 5BWDetached£179,500
1 Apr 1997PINE COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£177,500
14 Aug 1996WOODLANDS COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£142,000
3 Jul 1996GREENWAYS RH18 5BNDetached£235,500
29 May 1996MAGPIES RH18 5BNDetached£155,000
5 Jan 1996ST. CLOUD RH18 5BNDetached£173,000
27 Oct 1995BRACKENSIDE RH18 5BWDetached£150,000
18 Oct 1995HATHAWAY RH18 5BNDetached£223,500
12 Sep 1995HAWTHORN COTTAGE RH18 5BWDetached£280,000
6 Jul 1995MELSTOCK RH18 5BNDetached£235,000

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 April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 168 m². Most common: House, detached (18); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (9); 1983-1990 (4); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wealden in 2026-27: Band D £2,728 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,819£2,122£2,425£2,728£3,335£3,941£4,547£5,457

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (27% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 3 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 3 low and 0 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
RH18 5BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
RH18 5BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH18 5EAzone 2 1 / 0 / 1 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.

© 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 41 addresses are between 58 m and 76 m above sea level (67 m on average); the ground rises about 17 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
RH18 5BN100%100%100%0%
RH18 5BW100%100%100%0%
RH18 5EA100%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 stationsEast Grinstead 1.1 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Dormans 123,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Cowden (Kent) 48,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Crescent Forest Row270 m
Bus or coach stationCowden - Crossroads7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Car parksAshdown Forest Centre Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW16.9 km (10 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 Ashdown Forest Health Centre560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashdown Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 1 Riverview Office Park [Dental Surgery]540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital Cdc5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Police stationEast Grinstead Police Station5 km (3.1 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,910 m²200 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²220 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,700 m²390 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wealden Allotments 1.1 ha420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Kidbrooke Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kidbrooke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Brambletye HouseScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Medieval moated site, Brambletye ManorScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spanden WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Alder WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Gill WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Minepits WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Tanner's Hill PettHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Weir Wood ReservoirLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) west

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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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 6410
Under 554041

1 of the street's 41 addresses is 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 Wealden: see them on the Wealden 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
Forest Row Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary4–1190 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Khans Balti RH18 5ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Forest Biltong RH18 5DZRetailers - other260 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Forest Row Community Centre RH18 5DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Forest Roe Fish & Chips RH18 5DYTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good25 Aug 2026
Canopy RH18 5DYTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m4 Good6 Aug 2025
The Coop RH18 5DNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good26 Aug 2026
Veasey and Son RH18 5DNRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Mar 2026
Kailash P&P Limited RH18 5DQRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 Dec 2024
Sacred Heart Hardware and DIY Ltd RH18 5DQRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory6 Dec 2024
Nature Provides RH18 5HEDistributors/Transporters490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2024

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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Other theft2
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Blacklands Crescent (8); On or near Upper Close (5); On or near Ashdown Road (4); On or near School Lane (2); On or near Dale Road (1).

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: 332 residents in 133 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 age5140
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)41%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)50%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

Nearby streets

Shalesbrook Lane · School Lane · Deerhurst Park · Upper Close · Blacklands Crescent · Park Crescent · Dale Road · Hatch End · Walhatch Close · Shalesbrook Lane · Medway Drive · Evelyn Clark Square

All the streets in RH18 and across Wealden.

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.