Middle Lane Seal, Sevenoaks

24 addresses across 4 postcodes (TN15), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34300741.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £297,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 8, E: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in Sevenoaks costs £2,522 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bat and Ball, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 97 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St John's Medical Practice, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 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£297,500£297,500£297,500
20221£570,000£570,000£570,000
20171£328,000£328,000£328,000
20161£300,000£300,000£300,000
20111£214,000£214,000£214,000
20101£235,000£235,000£235,000
20061£190,000£190,000£190,000
20051£164,500£164,500£164,500
20044£192,000£166,000£222,500
20031£186,000£186,000£186,000
20022£155,500£142,500£168,500
20001£125,000£125,000£125,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Apr 20243 TN15 0BBTerraced£297,500
14 Nov 20227 TN15 0BBDetached£570,000
10 Oct 20174 TN15 0BBTerraced£328,000
18 Mar 20166 TN15 0BBTerraced£300,000
8 Apr 20116 TN15 0BBTerraced£214,000
7 May 20104 TN15 0BBTerraced£235,000
13 Dec 20066 TN15 0BBTerraced£190,000
23 Sep 20051 TN15 0BBTerraced£164,500
9 Dec 20044 TN15 0BBTerraced£222,500
16 Jul 20045 TN15 0BBTerraced£205,000
2 Apr 20046 TN15 0BBTerraced£179,000
9 Feb 20044 TN15 0BBTerraced£166,000
31 Jul 20032 TN15 0BBTerraced£186,000
14 Aug 20026 TN15 0BBTerraced£168,500
9 Aug 20021 TN15 0BBTerraced£142,500
22 Mar 20002 TN15 0BBTerraced£125,000
12 Nov 19997 TN15 0BBDetached£209,500
29 Oct 19993 TN15 0BBTerraced£123,000
15 Oct 19991 TN15 0BBTerraced£85,000
16 Apr 19992 TN15 0BBTerraced£104,000
11 Jul 19972 TN15 0BBTerraced£92,500
24 Feb 19975 TN15 0BBTerraced£96,000
27 Sep 19961 TN15 0BBTerraced£59,995
24 Jul 19955 TN15 0BBTerraced£87,000

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

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 50 m². Most common: Flat (11); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1983-1990 (13); 1900-1929 (3); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); rented (private) (2); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Sevenoaks in 2026-27: Band D £2,522 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,682£1,962£2,242£2,522£3,083£3,643£4,204£5,045

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 560 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: yes, Seal (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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

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

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.

© 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 24 addresses are between 90 m and 97 m above sea level (93 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
TN15 0AU100%67%67%0%
TN15 0BB100%100%100%0%
TN15 0BL100%100%100%0%
TN15 0DS100%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 stationsBat and Ball 218,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Kemsing 17,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Sevenoaks 3.7 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest School Seal70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Sevenoaks2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksSuffolk Way Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY26.6 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW32.4 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 surgeriesSt John's Medical Practice1.9 km (1.2 miles)
PharmaciesBat & Ball Pharmacy1.8 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentistsEustace Dental & Implant Clinic2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalSevenoaks Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationSevenoaks Police Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM80 m

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 gardenUnnamed 1,990 m²1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 740 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.3 ha180 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seal Allotments 1.3 ha250 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade I), 170 m north-east. 39 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade I170 m north-east
Bowl barrow in Millpond WoodScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Summerhouse WoodWood700 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Money ShawWood800 m (0.5 miles) east
Millpond WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Bradbourne LakesLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) west
Shore HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) north
The DellValley4.1 km (2.6 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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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 5980
Under 551624

8 of the street's 24 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 Sevenoaks: see them on the Sevenoaks page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Seal Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11380 m No published inspection
Trinity School ChristianSecondary11–19920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St John's Church of England Primary School, SevenoaksPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Five Bells TN15 0AUPub/bar/nightclub30 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
Seal Over 60S TN15 0BDOther catering premises70 m5 Very good14 May 2022
Top Banana Preschool TN15 0ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good11 May 2026
Seal Supermarket LMT TN15 0ANRetailers - other80 m1 Major improvement necessary7 Oct 2025
H W Coldbreath TN15 0ANRetailers - other80 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Deniz Whole Good Food TN15 0ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m2 Improvement necessary9 Jun 2026
Cake It Easy TN15 0ANOther catering premises80 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
The Chosen Pizza TN15 0ARTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good28 Jan 2025
Ganga Restaurant TN15 0AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 mAwaiting publication
Lavender Fields TN15 0AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good31 Jul 2025
The Pavilion Restaurant At Wildernesse House TN15 0EAOther catering premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jul 2026
Seal Community School Farm TN15 0DJRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Apr 2024
Nourish Contract Catering @ Seal Primary School TN15 0DJSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Inspire Academy Movement Trust TN15 0DJSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2024

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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime1
Burglary1
Other theft1
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pudding Lane (12); On or near Park Lane (7); On or near Middle Lane (4); On or near Sunnyside Mews (2); On or near High Street (1).

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: 565 residents in 253 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away23%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Ganga Restaurant (restaurant/cafe/canteen, TN15 0AW) now Awaiting publication, was Unknown found 4 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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

Middle Lane · School Lane · Zion Street · Church Road · School Lane · Pudding Lane · Jubilee Rise · Landway · Ragge Way · High Street · Wilmar Way · Seal Drive

All the streets in TN15 and across Sevenoaks.

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.