Frythe Way Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells

76 addresses across 8 postcodes (TN17), about 540 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 41100385.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £311,750 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 55 homes have an energy certificate (C: 31, D: 21, E: 3).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are 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 C; Band D in Tunbridge Wells costs £2,446 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Staplehurst, about 8.6 km (5.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Town Meadow, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 91 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 76 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Orchard End, about 310 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,120 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 62 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
20254£311,750£295,000£320,000
20242£273,000£236,000£310,000
20231£375,000£375,000£375,000
20202£237,500£215,000£260,000
20162£252,500£245,000£260,000
20151£225,000£225,000£225,000
20142£206,000£187,000£225,000
20132£181,500£180,000£183,000
20111£224,000£224,000£224,000
20081£212,000£212,000£212,000
20061£205,000£205,000£205,000
20041£97,000£97,000£97,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 May 202553 TN17 3ATSemi-detached£295,000
28 Mar 202514 TN17 3ARSemi-detached£305,000
14 Mar 202536 TN17 3ATSemi-detached£320,000
14 Mar 202536 TN17 3ATSemi-detached£315,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Feb 202512 TN17 3ARSemi-detached£318,500
8 Mar 202412 TN17 3ARSemi-detached£236,000
29 Jan 202461 TN17 3ATTerraced£310,000
24 Feb 202325 TN17 3ASSemi-detached£375,000
30 Oct 202059 TN17 3ATTerraced£260,000
17 Jan 202053 TN17 3ATSemi-detached£215,000
12 Jul 201661 TN17 3ATTerraced£245,000
26 Feb 201639 TN17 3ASTerraced£260,000
9 Jan 201533 TN17 3ASTerraced£225,000
2 Dec 201427 TN17 3ASSemi-detached£225,000
5 Aug 201449 TN17 3ATSemi-detached£187,000
26 Sep 201311 TN17 3ARSemi-detached£183,000
15 Apr 201357 TN17 3ATTerraced£180,000
7 Nov 201139 TN17 3ASSemi-detached£224,000
30 May 200839 TN17 3ASSemi-detached£212,000
27 Oct 200639 TN17 3ASSemi-detached£205,000
23 Feb 200410 TN17 3ARSemi-detached£97,000
19 Dec 200236 TN17 3ATSemi-detached£128,000
4 Jan 200237 TN17 3ASSemi-detached£115,000

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

55 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (21); Flat (12); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 1950-1966 (36); 1967-1975 (13); 1930-1949 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26); owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tunbridge Wells in 2026-27: Band D £2,446 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,631£1,903£2,174£2,446£2,990£3,533£4,077£4,892

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (48% of about 630 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: 12.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

  • 25 September 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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
TN17 3ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3ASnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3AUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN17 3BAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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.

© 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 76 addresses are between 75 m and 91 m above sea level (85 m on average); the ground rises about 16 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
TN17 3AF100%100%100%0%
TN17 3AP100%100%100%0%
TN17 3AR100%100%100%0%
TN17 3AS100%100%100%0%
TN17 3AT100%100%100%0%
TN17 3AU100%100%100%0%
TN17 3BA100%100%100%0%
TN17 3BB100%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 stationsStaplehurst 731,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.4 miles)
Marden (Kent) 486,000 journeys in 2024–259.6 km (6 miles)
Headcorn 578,000 journeys in 2024–2510.1 km (6.2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dorothy Avenue Cranbrook80 m
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW51.2 km (32 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 Orchard End310 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cranbrook Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crane Dental Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBenenden Hospital5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Police stationCranbrook Police Station900 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cranbrook Cashzone540 m (0.3 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 Town Meadow 270 m²140 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha90 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,000 m²380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hill House, a listed building (Grade II*), 110 m north-west. 167 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hill HouseListed building, Grade II*110 m north-west
Union MillListed building, Grade I120 m north
Cranbrook School House and Walls to SouthListed building, Grade II*280 m north-west
Providence ChapelListed building, Grade II*320 m north-west
Sissinghurst CourtRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The PondsLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The FlatsWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Stream WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Plantation WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Camden HillHill3.1 km (2 miles) north
Plumtree DingleValley4.3 km (2.7 miles) south-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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
55 to 5920
Under 557376

3 of the street's 76 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 Tunbridge Wells: see them on the Tunbridge Wells 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
Cranbrook School ChristianSecondary11–18320 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cranbrook Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11740 m (0.5 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
Mrs T Potts Ltd TN17 3HFRetailers - other280 m5 Very good10 Aug 2021
George Hotel TN17 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
E C Wilkes & Son TN17 3HERetailers - other310 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Cranbrook School TN17 3JDSchool/college/university320 m4 Good22 Sep 2025
Arthur's TN17 3HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m4 Good6 May 2026
Willow And Sage TN17 3HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Negishi Sushi TN17 3HFTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m2 Improvement necessary6 May 2026
Cranbrook Local / Premier TN17 3HFRetailers - other330 m5 Very good29 May 2026
Kypseli TN17 3HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good28 Nov 2025
Food For Thought TN17 3DFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Cranbrook Pharmacy TN17 3DFRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good6 Sep 2024
Larkins Alehouse TN17 3EBPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Jumeira Indian Restaurant TN17 3EBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 May 2025
Pages Newsagents TN17 3EERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2021
Domino's Pizza TN17 3EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Aug 2026

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.

62 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson10
Drugs5
Public order3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Robbery1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Huntington Close (16); On or near St Davids Bridge (10); On or near Badgers Mews (7); On or near Frythe Close (5); On or near The Hill (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,124 residents in 489 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 age4540
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

The Hill · Tippens Close · Rammell Mews · Russells Yard · Golford Road · Dorothy Avenue · The Hill · Frythe Close · Doctor Hope's Road · Oaklands · Huntington Close · The Tanyard

All the streets in TN17 and across Tunbridge Wells.

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.