Sissinghurst Road Biddenden, Ashford

204 addresses across 21 postcodes (TN27), about 2.8 km (1.8 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 1301082.

  • Sales: 60 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £975,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 58 homes have an energy certificate (A: 3, B: 3, C: 13, D: 20, E: 13, F: 5, G: 1).
  • Flood: 5 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 G; 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 Headcorn, about 5.6 km (3.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 103 of its 204 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Old School Surgery, about 6.4 km (4 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 37% 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
20261£975,000£975,000£975,000
20252£892,500£610,000£1,175,000
20221£435,000£435,000£435,000
20212£687,500£625,000£750,000
20202£740,000£680,000£800,000
20193£440,000£225,000£1,320,000
20182£557,750£540,000£575,500
20161£1,230,000£1,230,000£1,230,000
20151£635,000£635,000£635,000
20141£385,000£385,000£385,000
20132£404,990£310,000£499,980
20122£665,000£480,000£850,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 60)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 May 20261, FROGS HOLE COTTAGE TN27 8HBSemi-detached£975,000
29 Aug 2025NEW HOUSE FARM TN27 8EHDetached£1,175,000
16 Jun 2025MAGNOLIA TN27 8EQSemi-detached£610,000
26 Aug 2022BEPEDA TN27 8EQSemi-detached£435,000
30 Sep 2021GREEN HEDGES TN27 8EQDetached£625,000
24 Jun 2021HIGHFIELD HOUSE TN27 8EQOther£875,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Mar 2021MOUNTFIELD HOUSE TN27 8EHDetached£750,000
22 Dec 2020NITH DALE TN27 8EHDetached£800,000
4 Dec 20201, FROGS HOLE COTTAGE TN27 8HBOther£825,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Nov 2020WEALD VIEW TN27 8EHDetached£680,000
24 Jul 20202, FROGS HOLE COTTAGE TN27 8HBSemi-detached£355,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Nov 2019SURRENDEN TN27 8EQDetached£440,000
23 Aug 2019BROAD OAK BARN TN27 8EXDetached£225,000
5 Aug 2019LITTLE MANOR TN27 8EXDetached£1,320,000
19 Dec 2018HILLCREST TN27 8EQDetached£575,500
4 Oct 2018HILLCREST TN27 8EQOther£3,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Oct 2018PEBBLINGS TN27 8EHDetached£540,000
31 Aug 2018MACLAREN BARN TN27 8EJOther£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Oct 20161, FROGS HOLE COTTAGE TN27 8HBOther£351,051Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 2016FROGS HOLE FARM TN27 8EYOther£1,192,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jul 2016GREAT BATCHELORS TN27 8EXDetached£1,230,000
16 Oct 2015SWALLOWS HOUSE TN27 8EHDetached£635,000
9 Dec 2014GREENWAYS TN27 8EHDetached£385,000
29 Nov 2013OAKLANDS TN27 8EQDetached£310,000
25 Jul 2013ORCHARD HOUSE TN27 8EHDetached£499,980
24 Aug 2012SWALLOWS NEST TN27 8EHDetached£480,000
16 Jul 2012FROGS HOLE BARN TN27 8EYDetached£850,000
11 Jun 2010GREENACRES FARM TN27 8EHDetached£500,000
25 Feb 20102, BIDDENDEN COTTAGES TN27 8EJSemi-detached£212,000
4 Apr 2008MAGNOLIA TN27 8EQSemi-detached£325,000
18 Jan 2008HIGHFIELD HOUSE TN27 8EQDetached£680,000
24 Aug 2007MOUNTFIELD HOUSE TN27 8EHDetached£560,000
10 Aug 2007BLUE OAK BARN TN27 8EQDetached£217,000New build.
3 Apr 2007BLOOMSBURYS BIDDENDEN TN27 8DQDetached£260,000
11 Sep 20062, BIDDENDEN COTTAGES TN27 8EJSemi-detached£200,000
1 Sep 2006TALL TREES TN27 8EHDetached£375,000
26 May 2006FROGS HOLE OAST TN27 8HBDetached£762,000
24 May 2006NITH DALE TN27 8EHDetached£545,000
10 Nov 2005NEW HOUSE FARM TN27 8EHDetached£528,000
18 Aug 2005HILL CREST TN27 8EQDetached£330,000
24 Sep 20042, BIDDENDEN COTTAGES TN27 8EJSemi-detached£145,000
27 Jan 2004GREENACRES FARM TN27 8EHDetached£535,000
30 May 2003HILL CREST TN27 8EQDetached£242,000
17 Sep 2002MOUNTFIELD HOUSE TN27 8EHDetached£385,000
23 Jul 2001BLACKFRIARS BARN TN27 8EQDetached£348,550
8 Dec 2000NITH DALE TN27 8EHDetached£322,500
27 Apr 2000HIGHFIELD HOUSE TN27 8EQDetached£330,000
10 Jan 2000LARKHILL TN27 8EQSemi-detached£142,000
20 Oct 1999NEW HOUSE FARM TN27 8EHDetached£370,000
27 May 1999PELL HOUSE FARM TN27 8EHDetached£360,000

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

58 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 150 m². Most common: House, detached (34); House, semi-detached (14); Bungalow, detached (7). Built: before 1900 (13); 1950-1966 (9); 1930-1949 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (42); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (30 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 G (20% of about 2,340 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 3 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: 15.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees 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

  • 26 November 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Disconnection or alteration of supply, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 14 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

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
TN27 8EQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TN27 8EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8EHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8EJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8HAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8EYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TN27 8HDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8HEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8FLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TN27 8HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TN27 8EFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8DTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8EZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8HNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TN27 8HPnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 1 unlikely
TN27 8LWnot 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 204 addresses are between 36 m and 66 m above sea level (52 m on average); the ground rises about 30 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
TN27 8DG100%0%0%0%
TN27 8DQ100%0%0%0%
TN27 8DT0%0%0%0%
TN27 8EF100%0%0%0%
TN27 8EH100%0%0%0%
TN27 8EJ100%0%0%0%
TN27 8EL75%63%63%13%
TN27 8EQ100%0%0%0%
TN27 8ET71%71%71%29%
TN27 8EU100%0%0%0%
TN27 8EX0%0%0%10%
TN27 8EY0%0%0%100%
TN27 8EZ0%0%0%25%
TN27 8FL0%0%0%0%
TN27 8HA0%0%0%14%
TN27 8HB0%0%0%100%
TN27 8HD25%25%25%75%
TN27 8HE75%75%75%25%
TN27 8HN100%100%100%0%
TN27 8HP100%0%0%0%
TN27 8LW0%0%0%75%

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 stationsHeadcorn 578,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Staplehurst 731,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Pluckley 115,000 journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Bus stopsNone within 800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station9.1 km (5.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN50.9 km (32 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW56.8 km (35 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 Surgery6.4 km (4 miles)
PharmaciesHeadcorn Pharmacy6.2 km (3.8 miles)
NHS dentistsThe Wealden Dental Practice5.8 km (3.6 miles)
HospitalBenenden Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationCranbrook Police Station7.1 km (4.4 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 areaUnnamed 770 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.7 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,810 m²1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Great Bachelors Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 490 m (0.3 miles) west. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great Bachelors HallListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) west
Castwisell Manor FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*950 m (0.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Butcher's WoodWood720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Beeching ShawWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Poors WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Hammer WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Sharp's HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Lake ChadLake or reservoir4.5 km (2.8 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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 7410
65 to 69160
60 to 64490
55 to 59370
Under 55101204

103 of the street's 204 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
John Mayne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; 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
Bloomsburys Biddenden Ltd. TN27 8DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Roots cafe TN27 8DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026

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 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,583 residents in 639 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 over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented11%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)25%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 van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)38%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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, 26 November 2026 (two-way signals) 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.

All the streets in TN27 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.