Lower Street Tilmanstone, Dover

52 addresses across 5 postcodes (CT14), about 520 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 11300746.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £480,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 1, D: 17, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: 6 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 Dover costs £2,462 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shepherds Well, about 5.5 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Richards Road Surgery, about 5.4 km (3.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20232£480,000£350,000£610,000
20201£440,000£440,000£440,000
20192£305,000£250,000£360,000
20143£167,000£150,000£325,000
20132£250,000£250,000£250,000
20121£327,500£327,500£327,500
20111£345,000£345,000£345,000
20081£185,000£185,000£185,000
20072£268,500£250,000£287,000
20061£150,000£150,000£150,000
20052£146,000£140,000£152,000
20042£115,000£110,000£120,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Sep 2023DANE GLEN CT14 0JATerraced£350,000
18 Sep 2023IZZYINN CT14 0JDDetached£610,000
28 Feb 2020CHAPEL FARM CT14 0HYDetached£440,000
12 Dec 20191 CT14 0JDTerraced£250,000
13 Sep 2019CHAPEL FARM COTTAGE CT14 0HYSemi-detached£360,000
23 Sep 20141 CT14 0JDTerraced£167,000
21 Mar 2014THE GOAL CT14 0JDDetached£325,000
19 Mar 20142 CT14 0JDTerraced£150,000
6 Sep 2013SAMARINDA CT14 0JDDetached£250,000
5 Jul 2013OMEGA CT14 0HZDetached£250,000
28 Sep 2012MEADOWSIDE CT14 0JDDetached£327,500
2 Feb 2011CHAPEL FARM CT14 0HYDetached£345,000
18 Jan 2008WHITE BUNGALOW CT14 0JDDetached£185,000
27 Jul 2007THE GOAL CT14 0JDDetached£287,000
15 Jun 2007SAMARINDA CT14 0JDDetached£250,000
10 Aug 20061 CT14 0JDSemi-detached£150,000
16 Sep 20052 CT14 0JDTerraced£140,000
29 Mar 20053 CT14 0JDTerraced£152,000
1 Jun 2004LITTLE CLOSE CT14 0HZSemi-detached£110,000
16 Mar 2004FOUR WINDS CT14 0JATerraced£120,000
17 Apr 2003THE OLD BAKEHOUSE CT14 0JADetached£345,000
23 Apr 2002CHAPEL FARM COTTAGE CT14 0HYSemi-detached£126,000
29 Aug 2001THE GOAL CT14 0JDDetached£155,000
13 Dec 2000ROBIN HILL CT14 0HZSemi-detached£73,500
27 Jan 1999CHAPEL FARM CT14 0HYDetached£93,000
28 Jun 1996THE LEAS CT14 0JDDetached£60,000
28 Jun 19961 CT14 0JDSemi-detached£51,000

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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (6); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1967-1975 (5); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (social) (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Dover in 2026-27: Band D £2,462 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,641£1,915£2,188£2,462£3,009£3,556£4,103£4,923

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (26% of about 740 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: 2.
  • 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

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 8 January 2027: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Disconnection or alteration of supply, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the verge (major works)

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 14 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
CT14 0JDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 5 unlikely
CT14 0JAnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 8 unlikely
CT14 0HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CT14 0HYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
CT14 0JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 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 52 addresses are between 38 m and 45 m above sea level (40 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
CT14 0HY100%100%100%0%
CT14 0HZ100%100%100%0%
CT14 0JA100%100%100%0%
CT14 0JB100%100%100%0%
CT14 0JD100%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 stationsShepherds Well 70,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Martin Mill 68,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Snowdown 12,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chapel Road Tilmanstone130 m
Ferry terminalDover Eastern Docks Ferry Terminal9.8 km (6.1 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN58 km (36 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW104 km (65 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 surgeriesSt Richards Road Surgery5.4 km (3.3 miles)
PharmaciesEastry Pharmacy3.6 km (2.2 miles)
NHS dentistsBeech Grove Dental Clinic4.4 km (2.7 miles)
HospitalVictoria Hospital (Deal)6.4 km (4 miles)
Police stationSandwich Police Shop7.4 km (4.6 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,510 m²70 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha380 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,480 m²2.3 km (1.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade I), 440 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade I440 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Dane CourtListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gorsefield WoodWood600 m (0.4 miles) east
Nine Acre WoodWood640 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Boys' FirsWood670 m (0.4 miles) south
Six Acre WoodWood790 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Buttsole PondLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Kelk HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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
55 to 59250
Under 552752

25 of the street's 52 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 Dover: see them on the Dover 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
Northbourne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lower Street (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 368 residents in 153 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 age5740
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%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 qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN: Disconnection or alteration of supply, 8 January 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026

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

Chapel Road · Lower Street · Vicarage Lane · St Andrews Way · St Marys Grove

All the streets in CT14 and across Dover.

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.