Mulberry Hill Chilham, Ashford

25 addresses across 4 postcodes (CT4), about 870 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 1300834.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £1,425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 6, E: 2).
  • 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 E; Band D in Ashford costs £2,410 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chilham, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 710 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Old School Surgery, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 780 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£1,425,000£1,425,000£1,425,000
20221£1,250,000£1,250,000£1,250,000
20211£350,000£350,000£350,000
20191£550,000£550,000£550,000
20171£375,000£375,000£375,000
20071£490,000£490,000£490,000
20051£287,500£287,500£287,500
20031£275,000£275,000£275,000
20021£260,000£260,000£260,000
20011£170,000£170,000£170,000
20001£147,000£147,000£147,000
19981£475,000£475,000£475,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 2024BERRY HOUSE CT4 8AHDetached£1,425,000
30 Oct 2023MULBERRY HOUSE CT4 8AHOther£1,262,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 May 2022YEW TREE BARN CT4 8AHOther£360,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jan 2022MULBERRY LODGE CT4 8AHDetached£1,250,000
13 Aug 2021PLOT A, YEW TREE LODGE CT4 8AHOther£480,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 20211, MULBERRY COTTAGES CT4 8AJTerraced£350,000
29 Nov 2019BERRY HOUSE LODGE CT4 8AHDetached£550,000
20 Feb 2017LITTLE MULBERRY COTTAGE CT4 8AJTerraced£375,000
23 Mar 20071, MULBERRY COTTAGES CT4 8AJTerraced£490,000
22 Jul 20052, MULBERRY COTTAGES CT4 8AJTerraced£287,500
6 Jun 2003YEW TREE LODGE CT4 8AHDetached£275,000
27 Feb 2002HIGHDOWN CT4 8AJDetached£260,000
29 Jun 20012, MULBERRY COTTAGES CT4 8AJTerraced£170,000
8 Sep 2000BERRY HOUSE LODGE CT4 8AHDetached£147,000
8 Jun 1998BERRY HOUSE CT4 8AHDetached£475,000

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 173 m². Most common: House, detached (8); Bungalow, semi-detached (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (3); before 1900 (3); 2020 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ashford in 2026-27: Band D £2,410 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,607£1,875£2,142£2,410£2,946£3,481£4,017£4,820

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (21% of about 1,180 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • 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

  • 25 January 2027 to 27 January 2027: SOUTH EAST WATER, New service connection, road closure, on the carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)
  • 25 January 2027 to 27 January 2027: SOUTH EAST WATER, New service connection, road closure, on the carriageway, 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

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 25 addresses are between 26 m and 59 m above sea level (45 m on average); the ground rises about 33 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
CT4 8AH8%0%0%17%
CT4 8AJ100%0%0%0%
CT4 8AU100%0%0%0%
CT4 8DU100%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 stationsChilham 66,000 journeys in 2024–25480 m (0.3 miles)
Chartham 103,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Selling 100,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Old Alma Chilham400 m (0.2 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Canterbury8.1 km (5 miles)
EV charging pointsConnected Kerb Charging Stations3.3 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN40.8 km (25 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW81.8 km (51 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 surgeriesOld School Surgery2.4 km (1.5 miles)
PharmaciesMorrisons Pharmacy6.7 km (4.2 miles)
NHS dentistsA1 Dental Surgery7.5 km (4.7 miles)
HospitalThe Bmi Chaucer Hospital8.1 km (5 miles)
Police stationNackington Police Station7.8 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Gate Cashzone4.7 km (2.9 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 5,860 m²710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 830 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,470 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Vicarage, a listed building (Grade II*), 820 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 50 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
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I880 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Julliberrie's Grave Long BarrowScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) south
Tower keep castle at ChilhamScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Chilham CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site8.6 km (5.3 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stile Farm AldersWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Hawkin's RoughWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Pickelden AldersWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Chestnut PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
North DownsHills1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Sprats WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
70 to 7420
55 to 59100
Under 551325

12 of the street's 25 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 Ashford: see them on the Ashford 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
Chilham, St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Mulberry Hill Honey CT4 8AHFarmers/growers320 mAwaiting inspection
G R Higgs & Son CT4 8DXRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Mar 2016
Achieve Together Physiological Support Ltd, Ashford Lodge CT4 8DUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 2025

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (kent).

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: 780 residents in 309 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 age4640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)27%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 van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)36%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away27%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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

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.

All the streets in CT4 and across Ashford.

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.