Thorndon Close Orpington, Bromley

49 addresses across 2 postcodes (BR5), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20301317.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £440,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 22, 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 Bromley costs £2,140 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is St Mary Cray, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hoblingwell Wood, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 63 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 49 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broomwood Health Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 31 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
20262£440,000£430,000£450,000
20251£410,000£410,000£410,000
20243£370,000£360,000£395,000
20232£345,000£320,000£370,000
20221£385,000£385,000£385,000
20213£348,000£334,000£372,000
20202£317,500£295,000£340,000
20192£333,000£333,000£333,000
20181£340,000£340,000£340,000
20161£289,000£289,000£289,000
20151£268,000£268,000£268,000
20142£246,750£245,000£248,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202612 BR5 2SJTerraced£450,000
30 Jan 20269 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£430,000
3 Nov 202510 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£410,000
10 Sep 202419 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£395,000
5 Aug 202432 BR5 2SJTerraced£360,000
29 Apr 202447 BR5 2SHTerraced£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Apr 202414 BR5 2SJTerraced£370,000
25 Aug 202324 BR5 2SJFlat or maisonette£370,000
17 Feb 202329 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£320,000
27 Apr 202224 BR5 2SJFlat or maisonette£385,000
22 Dec 202110 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£372,000
23 Sep 202124 BR5 2SJFlat or maisonette£334,000
20 Sep 202120 BR5 2SJTerraced£348,000
17 Sep 202025 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£340,000
31 Jan 202014 BR5 2SJTerraced£295,000
13 Dec 20195 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£333,000
8 Nov 201912 BR5 2SJTerraced£333,000
4 May 201816 BR5 2SJTerraced£340,000
14 Mar 201611 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£289,000
21 Aug 201516 BR5 2SJTerraced£268,000
27 Jun 201442 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£248,500
6 Jun 201432 BR5 2SJTerraced£245,000
17 May 20136 BR5 2SJTerraced£237,500
11 Jun 201218 BR5 2SJTerraced£157,000
30 Jun 201147 BR5 2SHTerraced£225,000
26 Mar 201012 BR5 2SJTerraced£170,000
17 Nov 200925 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£185,000
9 Jan 200935 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£195,000
19 Feb 200839 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£188,000
8 Feb 200847 BR5 2SHTerraced£225,000
19 Nov 200714 BR5 2SJTerraced£178,000
22 Jun 200710 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£207,000
12 Dec 200649 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£189,000
21 Jul 20066 BR5 2SJTerraced£220,000
1 Feb 200622 BR5 2SJTerraced£167,000
9 Nov 200421 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£186,000
12 Sep 200322 BR5 2SJTerraced£148,000
11 Sep 20035 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£164,000
30 Aug 200215 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£136,500
28 Aug 200249 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£140,000
25 Jun 200222 BR5 2SJTerraced£127,000
1 May 200242 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£110,000
28 Nov 200115 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£95,000
14 Nov 200135 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£116,000
2 Jun 200051 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£105,000
18 Nov 199910 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£85,000
16 Apr 199938 BR5 2SJSemi-detached£89,000
25 Jun 199824 BR5 2SJFlat or maisonette£81,000
10 Oct 199722 BR5 2SJTerraced£59,950
30 Sep 199721 BR5 2SHSemi-detached£70,000

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.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); House, end-terrace (11); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (29); 1976-1982 (2); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21); rented (social) (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bromley in 2026-27: Band D £2,140 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,427£1,664£1,902£2,140£2,616£3,091£3,567£4,280

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (67% of about 630 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 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 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 49 addresses are between 63 m and 71 m above sea level (67 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
BR5 2SH100%100%100%0%
BR5 2SJ100%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 stationsSt Mary Cray 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Petts Wood 1.7 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Chislehurst 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brenchley Road St Pauls Cray150 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Footscray Lane Sidcup3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier10.2 km (6.3 miles)
Car parks108 Main Road Parking2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station670 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.5 km (7.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34.6 km (21 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 Broomwood Health Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cray Hill Pharmacy + Travel Clinic700 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Pauls Cray Health Clinic350 m
HospitalQueen Mary's Hospital Sidcup Elective Surgical Hub1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationSidcup Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food St Pauls Cray, St Pauls Cray Cashzone800 m (0.5 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 Hoblingwell Wood 14 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Scadbury Park 133 ha390 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,230 m²390 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hoblingwell Wood 11 ha250 m
AllotmentsHorsell Gardens Allotments 1,100 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 152 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Scadbury Manor moated site and fishponds, a scheduled monument, 670 m (0.4 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Scadbury Manor moated site and fishpondsScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) north
Priory Gardens, OrpingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The LarchesWood670 m (0.4 miles) west
St Paul's Cray CommonWood720 m (0.4 miles) west
Holbrook WoodWood750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Park WoodWood820 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Rush PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Garland HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) 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)12.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
55 to 5910
Under 554849

1 of the street's 49 addresses is 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 Bromley: see them on the Bromley 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
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Midfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Leesons Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Gray's Farm Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kemnal Technology CollegeSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Orion CoopersSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Chislehurst School for GirlsSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Poverest Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Nicholas Church of England PrimaryPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Slimming World Franchise BR5 2SSRetailers - other130 mExempt
Premier Chicken BR5 2RSTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Premier Supermarket BR5 2RSRetailers - other330 m5 Very good2 Jul 2024
Pette BR5 2RWRetailers - other340 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Orpington Rugby F C Pub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good5 Nov 2024
St Peter And St Paul Catholic Primary School BR5 2SRSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Stars Breakfast And After School Club BR5 2SRSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Munchkin Sports BR5 2SRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Vehicle crime6
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary4
Drugs1
Other theft1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chorleywood Crescent (9); On or near Mickleham Close (9); On or near Thorndon Close (7); On or near St Paul'S Wood Hill (3); On or near Thorndon Road (3).

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: 337 residents in 144 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 age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented42%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram15%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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 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.

Nearby streets

Thorndon Road · Mickleham Close · Beddington Green · Leith Hill · Giggs Hill · St Paul's Wood Hill · Beddington Road · Brenchley Road · Leith Hill Green · Blythe Hill · Mickleham Road · Whitewebbs Way

All the streets in BR5 and across Bromley.

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.