Shipley Mill Close Ashford

49 addresses across 1 postcode (TN23), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1301599.

  • Sales: 118 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £435,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 11, D: 16).
  • 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 E; Band D in Ashford costs £2,410 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashford International, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 39 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kingsnorth Medical Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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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
20251£435,000£435,000£435,000
20244£442,500£400,000£493,000
20231£500,000£500,000£500,000
20213£420,000£345,000£460,000
20201£417,500£417,500£417,500
20191£320,000£320,000£320,000
20171£320,000£320,000£320,000
20161£310,000£310,000£310,000
20152£325,000£300,000£350,000
20143£250,000£250,000£305,000
20135£243,000£225,000£299,995
20123£225,000£215,000£295,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 118)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Mar 202528 TN23 3NRDetached£435,000
5 Dec 202421 TN23 3NRDetached£475,000
27 Sep 202437 TN23 3NRDetached£400,000
11 Sep 202444 TN23 3NRDetached£410,000
16 May 202425 TN23 3NRDetached£493,000
24 Nov 202348 TN23 3NRDetached£500,000
5 Mar 202133 TN23 3NRDetached£460,000
5 Feb 202146 TN23 3NRSemi-detached£420,000
5 Jan 202134 TN23 3NRDetached£345,000
28 Sep 202043 TN23 3NRDetached£417,500
15 Feb 20191 TN23 3NRDetached£320,000
21 Jul 201745 TN23 3NRDetached£320,000
21 Dec 20168 TN23 3NRDetached£310,000
20 Nov 201545 TN23 3NRDetached£300,000
25 Feb 201541 TN23 3NRDetached£350,000
19 Nov 201417 TN23 3NRDetached£305,000
2 Jun 201442 TN23 3NRDetached£250,000
20 Jan 201413 TN23 3NRDetached£250,000
22 Aug 20133 TN23 3NRDetached£250,000
7 Aug 201334 TN23 3NRDetached£243,000
6 Aug 20139 TN23 3NRDetached£238,000
31 May 201335 TN23 3NRDetached£299,995
16 May 201345 TN23 3NRDetached£225,000
20 Aug 201222 TN23 3NRDetached£295,000
22 May 201224 TN23 3NRDetached£225,000
6 Jan 201211 TN23 3NRDetached£215,000
20 Apr 201123 TN23 3NRDetached£215,000
10 Dec 20102 TN23 3NRDetached£230,000
10 Sep 201012 TN23 3NRDetached£211,000
25 Feb 201045 TN23 3NRDetached£200,000
12 Mar 200943 TN23 3NRDetached£248,500
27 Jan 200934 TN23 3NRDetached£210,000
8 Aug 200835 TN23 3NRDetached£297,000
31 Jul 200824 TN23 3NRDetached£220,000
26 Oct 200742 TN23 3NRDetached£239,995
30 Aug 200728 TN23 3NRDetached£260,500
9 Jul 200717 TN23 3NRDetached£262,500
23 May 200746 TN23 3NRSemi-detached£250,000
11 May 200726 TN23 3NRDetached£288,500
16 Feb 20078 TN23 3NRDetached£209,500
22 Jul 20052 TN23 3NRDetached£180,000
6 May 200543 TN23 3NRDetached£243,500
22 Dec 200442 TN23 3NRDetached£188,000
5 Nov 200442 TN23 3NRDetached£188,000
29 Oct 200415 TN23 3NRDetached£225,000
12 Aug 200419 TN23 3NRDetached£188,000
27 May 200421 TN23 3NRDetached£265,000
13 May 200435 TN23 3NRDetached£249,950
13 May 200430 TN23 3NRDetached£234,950
8 Apr 200436 TN23 3NRDetached£249,950

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

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, detached (28). Built: 1996-2002 (24); 1991-1995 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20).

Each home's certificates and sales (28 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (41% of about 460 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 8 October 2026 to 12 October 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 24 August 2026 to 26 August 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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 5 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 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 49 addresses are between 39 m and 41 m above sea level (40 m on average).

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
TN23 3NR100%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 stationsAshford International 3.8 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Ham Street 82,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Wye 229,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Saw Lodge Field Park Farm130 m
Car parksPremier Inn Ashford Central Car Park2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN51.6 km (32 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW74.2 km (46 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsnorth Medical Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Starlight Dental Finberry1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalOne Ashford Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationAshford Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesBungalow Store Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.5 ha70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.5 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,930 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsBeaver Field Allotment 2,230 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade I), 720 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 9 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 MichaelListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Romano-British roadside settlement and World War II pillbox immediately east of Westhawk FarmScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Park WoodWood320 m south-west
Parklane WoodWood660 m (0.4 miles) south
Stumble WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Isaac WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Hookstead LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Collier's HillHill3 km (1.9 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 5920
Under 554749

2 of the street's 49 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), 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
Furley Park Primary AcademyPrimary4–11690 m (0.4 miles) 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
Kingsnorth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Finberry Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
East Stour Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
The John Wallis Church of England AcademyAll-through0–191.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2024, 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.

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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour13
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft2
Public order2
Drugs2
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sheepfold Lane (10); On or near Bell Chapel Close (9); On or near Snowbell Road (6); On or near Saw Lodge Field (6); On or near Smithy Drive (5).

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: 418 residents in 143 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 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away21%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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: SOUTH EAST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 8 October 2026 to 12 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 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.

  • TN23 3NR: 49 addresses of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Smithy Drive · Butterside Road · Bell Chapel Close · Conker Close · Snowbell Road · Bluebell Road · Blackthorn Way · Saw Lodge Field · Dove Close · Farrers Walk · Chestnut Lane · Silver Birch Grove

All the streets in TN23 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.