Highfields Forest Row, Wealden

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (RH18), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42701680.

40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £352,500 across 2 sales. 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 10, E: 5, F: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Wealden costs £2,728 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, about 5.0 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 230 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 70 to 81 m above sea level. 10 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Ashdown Forest Health Centre, about 170 m away. About 670 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 233 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£352,500£335,000£370,000
20232£585,000£570,000£600,000
20221£985,000£985,000£985,000
20194£400,000£393,000£640,000
20181£363,000£363,000£363,000
20151£285,000£285,000£285,000
20141£454,000£454,000£454,000
20131£305,000£305,000£305,000
20112£275,000£250,000£300,000
20102£264,975£249,950£280,000
20091£272,500£272,500£272,500
20072£300,500£291,000£310,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Nov 202512 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£370,000
26 Aug 20257 RH18 5AJTerraced£335,000
2 Mar 2023SUNRISE COTTAGE, 17 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£600,000
2 Mar 202316 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£570,000
23 Sep 2022THE COTTAGE RH18 5AJDetached£985,000
27 Aug 201915 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£393,000
14 Aug 2019HURSTVIEW RH18 5AJSemi-detached£400,000
14 Jun 2019THE COTTAGE RH18 5AJDetached£640,000
15 Mar 20192 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£400,000
5 Nov 20188 RH18 5AJTerraced£363,000
18 Aug 20158 RH18 5AJTerraced£285,000
15 Jan 2014WOODLAND VIEW RH18 5AJDetached£454,000
26 Apr 20131 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£305,000
24 Jun 20115 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£300,000
11 Feb 201115 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£250,000
15 Oct 201010 RH18 5AJTerraced£249,950
21 Sep 201016 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£280,000
25 Sep 20095 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£272,500
24 Aug 20076 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£310,000
29 Jun 20072 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£291,000
23 Aug 2004HURSTVIEW RH18 5AJSemi-detached£215,000
5 Jul 2004HURSTVIEW RH18 5AJSemi-detached£185,000
20 Apr 20041 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£278,000
25 Nov 200216 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£195,000
8 May 2002DAMSON COTTAGE, 13 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£172,000
20 Apr 200110 RH18 5AJTerraced£104,500
10 Mar 20001 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£159,000
29 Jul 19997 RH18 5AJTerraced£128,500
29 Jul 19995 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£117,000
26 Jul 199917 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£112,000
12 Nov 1998DAMSON COTTAGE, 13 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£115,750
27 Apr 1998DAMSON COTTAGE, 13 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£70,000
20 Feb 19981 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£111,000
4 Apr 19979 RH18 5AJDetached£88,500
6 Dec 19963 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£80,000
8 Nov 19962 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£78,500
22 Dec 19959 RH18 5AJDetached£65,000
24 Jul 19957 RH18 5AJTerraced£78,000
23 Jun 1995WYCHWAY RH18 5AJSemi-detached£126,600
3 Apr 19951 RH18 5AJSemi-detached£84,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2012 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 105 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); House, end-terrace (2); House, detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (7); 1900-1929 (6); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (2).

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 D (30% of about 1,070 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

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

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

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 70 m and 81 m above sea level (76 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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 5AJ100%100%100%0%
RH18 5AN100%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 2024–255.0 km
Dormans 123,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km
Cowden (Kent) 48,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 10 within 800 m; nearest Upper Close Forest Row110 m
Bus or coach stationCowden - Crossroads7.7 km
Car parksAshdown Forest Centre Car Park2.7 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW16.5 km

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; nearest Ashdown Forest Health Centre170 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Ashdown Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Stone Cottage (Dental Surgery)290 m
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital Cdc5.1 km
Police stationEast Grinstead Police Station4.7 km
Cash machinesEast Grinstead Station Cashzone5.0 km

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; nearest Unnamed 7,910 m²230 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 360 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4,700 m²150 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Wealden Allotments 1.1 ha640 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Stables to North of Kidbrooke Park, a listed building (Grade II*), 830 m south-west. 29 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stables to North of Kidbrooke ParkListed building, Grade II*830 m south-west
Kidbrooke Park Michael Hall Rudolf Steiner SchoolListed building, Grade II*860 m south-west
The Ruins of Brambletye HouseListed building, Grade II*1.0 km north-west
Brambletye HouseScheduled monument1.0 km north-west
Kidbrooke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.0 km south-west
Medieval moated site, Brambletye ManorScheduled monument1.1 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alder WoodWood790 m west
Spanden WoodWood1.0 km north-east
Minepits WoodWood1.2 km north-east
Gill WoodWood1.3 km north-east
Tanner's Hill PettHill2.2 km north-east
Weir Wood ReservoirLake or reservoir3.0 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5970
Under 551828

10 of the street's 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 NurseryPrimary4–11320 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashurst Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Forest Row Community Centre RH18 5DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
The Coop RH18 5DNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
Kailash P&P Limited RH18 5DQRetailers - other140 m4 Good6 Dec 2024
Sacred Heart Hardware and DIY Ltd RH18 5DQRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Dec 2024
Canopy RH18 5DYTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good6 Aug 2025
Forest Roe Fish & Chips RH18 5DYTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m4 Good25 Aug 2026
Veasey and Son RH18 5DNRetailers - other150 m4 Good11 Mar 2026
Nature Provides RH18 5HEDistributors/Transporters170 m5 Very good16 Apr 2024
Hop Yard Brewing Co Pub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025
Yard Yoga Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good24 Jun 2021
The Yard Kitchen / Carli Bay RH18 5AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Roochi RH18 5DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Forest Biltong RH18 5DZRetailers - other190 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
The Seasons Forest Row Ltd RH18 5HERetailers - other190 m5 Very good31 Oct 2024
Forest Row Golden Grill RH18 5DNRetailers - other190 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Feb 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.

233 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting175
Anti-social behaviour16
Violence and sexual offences12
Other theft7
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order5
Vehicle crime3
Burglary3
Drugs2
Robbery2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (202); On or near Parking Area (8); On or near Lewes Road (6); On or near Upper Close (5); On or near Gilham Lane (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 673 residents in 272 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 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%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 7 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.

  • RH18 5AJ: 26 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • RH18 5AN: 2 addresses of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Walhatch Close · Upper Close · Gilham Lane · Kidbrooke Rise · Freshfield Bank · Evelyn Clark Square · Station Road · Lower Road · Hatch End · School Lane · Hillside · Colchester Vale

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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