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Timbertops Lidsing, Maidstone

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME5), about 270 m long. USRN 24210911.

50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £307,500 across 2 sales. 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 10, C: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Maidstone costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. 6 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20222£307,500£305,000£310,000
20213£260,000£257,500£282,500
20202£347,500£245,000£450,000
20181£260,000£260,000£260,000
20171£250,000£250,000£250,000
20162£240,000£230,000£250,000
20152£166,000£137,000£195,000
20121£145,000£145,000£145,000
20111£247,500£247,500£247,500
20094£153,500£135,000£160,000
20073£160,000£124,995£169,000
20062£145,000£135,000£155,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Nov 202218 ME5 8XFTerraced£310,000
11 Nov 20223 ME5 8XFTerraced£305,000
9 Dec 20211 ME5 8XFTerraced£282,500
19 Oct 202120 ME5 8XFTerraced£260,000
23 Jul 202119 ME5 8XFTerraced£257,500
3 Dec 202017 ME5 8XFTerraced£245,000
13 Nov 202029 ME5 8XFDetached£450,000
25 Sep 201816 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£260,000
11 Sep 20175 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£250,000
19 Dec 20169 ME5 8XFTerraced£250,000
30 Jun 201621 ME5 8XFTerraced£230,000
5 Jun 201517 ME5 8XFTerraced£195,000
20 Mar 201510 ME5 8XFTerraced£137,000
7 Dec 20121 ME5 8XFTerraced£145,000
29 Nov 201129 ME5 8XFDetached£247,500
7 Oct 20093 ME5 8XFTerraced£150,000
14 Aug 200919 ME5 8XFTerraced£135,000
9 Mar 20095 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£157,000
16 Feb 200916 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£160,000
20 Dec 200723 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£169,000
13 Apr 200710 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£124,995
23 Mar 200721 ME5 8XFTerraced£160,000
28 Sep 200625 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£135,000
26 May 200614 ME5 8XFTerraced£155,000
4 Mar 200516 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£160,000
21 Dec 200414 ME5 8XFTerraced£147,500
15 Oct 20043 ME5 8XFTerraced£152,500
30 Jul 200424 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£153,500
23 Jul 200425 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£119,500
10 Jun 20042 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£147,000
13 May 200423 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£149,995
31 Oct 200310 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£92,500
2 Dec 200217 ME5 8XFTerraced£124,995
23 Oct 200215 ME5 8XFTerraced£124,995
12 Apr 20022 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£110,500
19 Dec 200116 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£93,000
15 Dec 200029 ME5 8XFDetached£134,500
4 Jan 200021 ME5 8XFTerraced£77,995
24 Aug 199914 ME5 8XFTerraced£65,000
24 Aug 199912 ME5 8XFTerraced£38,500
30 Jul 199910 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£38,500
11 Dec 199815 ME5 8XFTerraced£68,000
10 Jul 19982 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£76,000
12 Jun 199823 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£68,500
20 Apr 199825 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£45,500
23 May 19975 ME5 8XFSemi-detached£59,995
4 Nov 199630 ME5 8XFTerraced£30,500
30 Aug 19964 ME5 8XFTerraced£65,000
30 Aug 19963 ME5 8XFTerraced£55,500
31 May 199521 ME5 8XFTerraced£56,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2025 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (1). Built: 2025 (10); 2023 (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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 1,220 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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 1.0 km

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 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.

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
ME5 8XF100%100%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 30 October 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
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m No published inspection
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km No published inspection
Bredhurst Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km No overall grade (Jul 2025, 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 30 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m.

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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Violence and sexual offences1
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Timber Tops (6).

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.

  • ME5 8FS: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • ME5 8XF: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bramble Side · Clandon Road · Westfield Sole Road · Pinewood Drive · Birch Drive · Timber Tops · Dogwood Close · Yew Tree Close · Autumn Glade · Fir Tree Grove

All the streets in ME5 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.
  • Anything about planning applications, roadworks, noise, air quality or council tax yet.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.