Rycault Close Maidstone

19 addresses across 1 postcode (ME16), about 50 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 24208154.

  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 16, D: 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 C; Band D in Maidstone costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 35% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maidstone West, about 350 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Palace Gardens, is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 32 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Vine Medical Centre, about 310 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 234 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 June 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Bungalow, mid-terrace (7); Bungalow, end-terrace (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (4). Built: 1983-1990 (8); 1991-1995 (6); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (15); rented (private) (1); owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Maidstone in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,668£1,946£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,615£4,171£5,005

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 1,050 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: 4 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

  • 11/2 128: up to 5 homes, not permissioned (200 m)
  • 15/503091: up to 5 homes, not permissioned (240 m)
  • H1(15): up to 15 homes, not permissioned (260 m)
  • 14/505311: up to 6 homes, permissioned (290 m)
  • 15/510179: up to 65 homes, permissioned (290 m)
  • 16/507491: up to 20 homes, completing (320 m)
  • 15/502813: up to 14 homes, completed (390 m)
  • H1(17): up to 76 homes, not permissioned (480 m (0.3 miles))

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 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 19 addresses are between 27 m and 32 m above sea level (30 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
ME16 8SW100%100%35%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 stationsMaidstone West 561,000 journeys in 2024–25350 m
Maidstone Barracks 275,000 journeys in 2024–25770 m (0.5 miles)
Maidstone East 1.7 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 48 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bower Place Maidstone80 m
Bus or coach stationChequers Bus Station Maidstone1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Inn Maidstone (Town Centre) Car Park190 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN35.7 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW50.5 km (31 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Vine Medical Centre310 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maidstone Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalGstt @ Maidstone Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationMaidstone Police Station840 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bower Stores Cashzone180 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Palace Gardens 1.5 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.0 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cornwallis Playground 1.1 ha240 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha190 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 5.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 440 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 170 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The Archbishop's PalaceListed building, Grade I690 m (0.4 miles) east
The Dungeons at the Archbishop's PalaceListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) east
The Corpus Christi HallListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The 'Gatehouse', Palace Gardens, Mill StreetScheduled monument730 m (0.5 miles) east
Len Bridge, Mill StreetScheduled monument750 m (0.5 miles) east
The College of All SaintsScheduled monument780 m (0.5 miles) east
Mote ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oak WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Mill PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Bydews WoodsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
West WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Loose ValleyValley2.3 km (1.5 miles) south
Dove HillHill3 km (1.9 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)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6440
55 to 5910
Under 551319

6 of the street's 19 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 Maidstone: see them on the Maidstone 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
Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11250 m No published inspection
St Michael's Church of England Infant School MaidstonePrimary5–7250 m No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–16800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Brunswick House Primary SchoolPrimary5–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Oakwood Park Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Simon Stock Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 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: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Maidstone Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Maplesden Noakes SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Borough Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
South Borough Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Jade House / Sushi Boss ME16 8SETakeaway/sandwich shop40 mUnknown27 Jul 2026
Charcoal Grill ME16 8SETakeaway/sandwich shop50 m4 Good19 Sep 2025
Westborough Working Mens Club ME16 8SEPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
Hemsley House Nursery School ME16 8HUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Bower Stores ME16 8BGRetailers - other180 m4 Good17 Jan 2018
M And S Fried Chicken And Pizza ME16 8BGTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good19 Sep 2025
Belash Tandoori ME16 8JNTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Jan 2026
Mace ME16 8JNRetailers - other190 m5 Very good6 Dec 2018
Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter ME16 8SLOther catering premises210 m5 Very good8 Mar 2026
Avan Supermarket ME16 8JNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets220 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
First And Last ME16 8BHPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Caterlink At St Michaels C Of E Infants School ME16 8ERSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good30 Jan 2013
St Michael's CE Junior School ME16 8ERSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Premier Inn ME16 8HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
European School Of Osteopathy (Food) ME16 8SLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good3 Oct 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.

234 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences70
Anti-social behaviour66
Other theft20
Criminal damage and arson16
Drugs15
Public order14
Burglary10
Vehicle crime9
Other crime6
Shoplifting3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bower Terrace (30); On or near Vine Mews (25); On or near Bedford Place (21); On or near Orchard Place (20); On or near Terrace Road (20).

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: 375 residents in 173 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 age3540
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)78%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

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.

  • ME16 8SW: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Warwick Place · Victoria Street · White Rock Place · Bower Terrace · Orchard Place · Hever Gardens · Bower Lane · Terrace Road · Reginald Road · Birnam Square · Bedford Place · Bower Place

All the streets in ME16 and across Maidstone.

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.