Drayton Road Tonbridge

52 addresses across 3 postcodes (TN9), about 220 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 40601368.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £280,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (D: 3, E: 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 C; Band D in Tonbridge and Malling costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tonbridge, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 43 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tonbridge Medical Group, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 50% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 67 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
20211£280,000£280,000£280,000
20121£155,000£155,000£155,000
20052£109,875£43,750£176,000
20021£127,500£127,500£127,500
20001£75,000£75,000£75,000
19981£57,000£57,000£57,000
19971£75,000£75,000£75,000
19952£55,000£53,000£57,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Aug 2025UNIT 3 TN9 2BEOther£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Jun 20242 TN9 2BEOther£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 20213A TN9 2BESemi-detached£280,000
20 Sep 20191 TN9 2BESemi-detached£228,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Oct 20126D TN9 2BESemi-detached£155,000
22 Aug 20056D TN9 2BESemi-detached£176,000
3 Jun 20055C TN9 2BEFlat or maisonette£43,750Leasehold.
7 Jan 20026D TN9 2BESemi-detached£127,500
26 May 20006D TN9 2BESemi-detached£75,000
6 Jan 19981 TN9 2BESemi-detached£57,000
12 Dec 19975C TN9 2BESemi-detached£75,000
8 Sep 19957E TN9 2BEFlat or maisonette£57,000
19 Jan 19953A TN9 2BESemi-detached£53,000

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 July 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (4); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tonbridge and Malling in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,923£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,944

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (50% of about 800 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.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TN9 2BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TN9 2BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN9 2JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 52 addresses are between 33 m and 43 m above sea level (36 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
TN9 2BE100%100%100%0%
TN9 2BG100%100%100%0%
TN9 2JL100%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 stationsTonbridge 4.0 million journeys in 2024–25570 m (0.4 miles)
High Brooms 1.1 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Hildenborough 353,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lavender Hill Tonbridge150 m
Bus or coach stationLeigh (Kent) - Fleur de Lis PH4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Green Parking Ltd. Priory Street Car Park Tonbridge310 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Angel West550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW32.6 km (20 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tonbridge Medical Group710 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tonbridge Dentistry530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalTonbridge Cottage Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationTonbridge Police Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Petrol East Peckham - Tonbridge, East Peckham Cashzone880 m (0.5 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 2,420 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 8,890 m²850 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldRacecourse Spotsground 20 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,120 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ye Olde Chequers Inn, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ye Olde Chequers InnListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Tonbridge CastleScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Medieval hall at No 186 High StreetScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Town banksScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
MabledonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
SomerhillRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) south
Lambsbank WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Quarry HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Tinker's IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Barden LakeLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Vale of KentValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) east

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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
65 to 6903
60 to 6401
55 to 59011
Under 555237

15 of the street's 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Tonbridge Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18330 m Outstanding (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Royal Rise Primary SchoolPrimary5–11330 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Weald of Kent Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hillview School for GirlsSecondary11–18550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Judd SchoolSecondary11–18820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Sussex Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11950 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bishop Chavasse Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leigh Academy TonbridgeSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing ImpairmentPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
The New Drum TN9 2AUPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
The Holy Goat TN9 2JBPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Priory News TN9 2ASRetailers - other330 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
The New Telegraph Club Ltd TN9 2ASPub/bar/nightclub330 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Feb 2026
Independent Catering Management At Royal Rise Primary School TN9 2DQSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Bright Horizons Tonbridge TN9 2JBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Chartwells At Tonbridge Grammar School TN9 2JRSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Dec 2024
Punch And Judy TN9 2ABPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Chilin TN9 2AQTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory5 Aug 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.

67 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour23
Other crime4
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Public order3
Burglary1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near A2014 (19); On or near Bridge Close (12); On or near Cowdreys (10); On or near Pembury Grove (10); On or near Lavender Hill (6).

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: 499 residents in 216 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 age3740
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work80%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)50%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Pembury Grove · Lavender Hill · Parsons Place · Lavender Mews · Cowdreys · Goldsmid Road · Priory Street · Magnolia Close · Rose Street · St Eanswythe's Court · Tudor Mews · Fairfield Crescent

All the streets in TN9 and across Tonbridge and Malling.

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.