Grassmere Leybourne, Tonbridge and Malling

40 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME19), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40600394.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 18, D: 5).
  • Flood: 5 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 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 West Malling, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thornhills Medical Practice, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 36 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
20241£600,000£600,000£600,000
20221£558,000£558,000£558,000
20211£283,000£283,000£283,000
20201£336,500£336,500£336,500
20181£465,000£465,000£465,000
20161£245,000£245,000£245,000
20141£188,000£188,000£188,000
20131£227,500£227,500£227,500
20121£347,500£347,500£347,500
20111£187,000£187,000£187,000
20102£180,000£173,000£187,000
20082£319,500£299,000£340,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 202418 ME19 5QPDetached£600,000
29 Apr 202218 ME19 5QPDetached£558,000
18 Jun 202123 ME19 5QPTerraced£283,000
20 Nov 20202 ME19 5QPDetached£336,500
27 Jun 201818 ME19 5QPDetached£465,000
19 Aug 201623 ME19 5QPTerraced£245,000
14 Apr 201423 ME19 5QPTerraced£188,000
6 Nov 20133 ME19 5QPSemi-detached£227,500
10 Aug 201226 ME19 5QPDetached£347,500
11 Nov 201125 ME19 5QPTerraced£187,000
23 Jul 201023 ME19 5QPSemi-detached£173,000
16 Feb 201025 ME19 5QPTerraced£187,000
19 Dec 200814 ME19 5QPDetached£299,000
8 Feb 200828 ME19 5QPDetached£340,000
2 Nov 20072 ME19 5QPDetached£234,995
2 Oct 200721 ME19 5QPSemi-detached£249,995
4 Jan 200728 ME19 5QPDetached£325,000
4 Nov 200523 ME19 5QPSemi-detached£162,500
29 Sep 200539 ME19 5QPDetached£290,000
24 Jun 200425 ME19 5QPTerraced£159,995
22 Apr 20044 ME19 5QPDetached£235,000
16 Apr 200441 ME19 5QPDetached£290,000
2 Oct 20036 ME19 5QPDetached£233,000
22 Aug 200343 ME19 5QPDetached£250,000
11 Oct 200241 ME19 5QPDetached£240,000
5 Sep 200212 ME19 5QPDetached£245,000
30 Nov 200128 ME19 5QPDetached£232,000
30 Nov 20016 ME19 5QPDetached£176,000
1 Nov 200139 ME19 5QPDetached£225,000
24 Aug 200019 ME19 5QPTerraced£35,000Leasehold.
22 May 20002 ME19 5QPDetached£144,000
29 Jan 19995 ME19 5QPSemi-detached£108,000
21 Jul 199824 ME19 5QPDetached£175,000
17 Jul 19978 ME19 5QPDetached£151,500
14 Feb 199716 ME19 5QPDetached£127,000
28 May 199643 ME19 5QPDetached£113,500
21 Mar 199618 ME19 5QPDetached£116,000
19 Jul 199510 ME19 5QPDetached£124,000
2 Feb 199518 ME19 5QPDetached£117,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: Flat (11); House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (20); 1976-1982 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (9); rented (private) (1).

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 (32% of about 650 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): 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 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
ME19 5QPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 unlikely
ME19 5QQnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 7 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 40 addresses are between 18 m and 24 m above sea level (21 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
ME19 5QP100%100%100%0%
ME19 5QQ100%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 stationsWest Malling 897,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
East Malling 93,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
New Hythe 184,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lunsford Lane Larkfield100 m
Bus or coach stationEast Farleigh - Bull Inn6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Inn West Malling Car Park760 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Martin Square Car Park680 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY34.6 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW46.2 km (29 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 Thornhills Medical Practice760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Paydens Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southcot Dentalcare700 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalPreston Hall Hospital3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationKent Police Tactical Operations4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Maidstone Martin Square, Larkfield Cashzone760 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,780 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 690 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Leybourne CastleListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Leybourne CastleScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Clare HouseListed building, Grade I780 m (0.5 miles) south
The Wealden Hall RestaurantListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) east
St Mary's Abbey: a Benedictine abbey north and east of Water LaneScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Part of an Iron Age enclosure and a minor Roman villa 128m SSE of the Church of St JamesScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Castle LakeLake or reservoir580 m (0.4 miles) north
The AldersWood690 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Leybourne LakeLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
Springetts HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south
Upper CutTidal water2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Burham MarshesWetland3.6 km (2.3 miles) north-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)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
55 to 5910
Under 553940

1 of the street's 40 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 Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling 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
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lunsford Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Brookfield Infant SchoolPrimary5–7640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lift St James the GreatPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
More Park Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Malling SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ditton Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Malling Church of England Primary School and McGinty Speech and Language SrpPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Valley Invicta Primary School At Leybourne ChasePrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ditton Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, 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
Vitalize Wellness ME19 5QYRetailers - other210 mExempt
Leybourne Pre-School Ltd ME19 5QLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Leybourne Convenience Store ME19 5QLRetailers - other370 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Little Market Coffee House ME19 5QLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Old Rectory ME19 5PUPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good21 Sep 2026
Larkfield Food And Wine ME20 6HPRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Leybourne Cricket Club ME19 5HDPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

36 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime4
Other theft3
Robbery2
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wren Close (12); On or near Lunsford Lane (6); On or near Pinewood Close (4); On or near Grassmere (4); On or near Rectory Lane South (3).

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: 398 residents in 152 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 age4340
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Baywell · Redbank · Wren Close · Rectory Lane South · Heron Road · Heron Road · Woodlea · Nightingale Close · Copsehill · Highberry · Pinewood Close · Mallard Walk

All the streets in ME19 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.