Windmill Close Ashford

29 addresses across 1 postcode (TN24), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1301345.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 6, D: 7, F: 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 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 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ashford Medical Partnership, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 112 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
20251£300,000£300,000£300,000
20231£271,500£271,500£271,500
20221£325,000£325,000£325,000
20213£300,000£220,000£327,000
20201£308,000£308,000£308,000
20192£264,250£230,000£298,500
20181£230,000£230,000£230,000
20171£265,000£265,000£265,000
20131£185,000£185,000£185,000
20121£186,500£186,500£186,500
20111£175,000£175,000£175,000
20102£153,750£140,000£167,500
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Jun 20255 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£300,000
30 Jun 202316 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£271,500
10 Nov 202213 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£325,000
30 Jun 202113 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£220,000
28 Jun 202123 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£300,000
26 Feb 202122 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£327,000
8 Jun 202024 TN24 0AUDetached£308,000
20 Nov 201925 TN24 0AUDetached£298,500
19 Mar 201922 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£230,000
25 Apr 201825 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£230,000
15 Jun 20171 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£265,000
27 Sep 20131 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£185,000
22 Nov 20121 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£186,500
16 Dec 201119 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£175,000
27 May 201011 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£140,000
28 Jan 201014 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£167,500
29 Oct 20091 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£162,000
28 Aug 200911 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£120,000
15 Jul 200915 TN24 0AUTerraced£145,000
28 Nov 20078 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£192,000
18 Aug 200615 TN24 0AUTerraced£157,500
7 Mar 200617 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£167,500
1 Feb 20053 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£130,000
28 Sep 19998 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£67,000
5 Oct 19981 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£70,000
4 Apr 199712 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£53,000
22 Nov 19963 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£54,500
15 Aug 199617 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£54,000
10 Jul 19966 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£57,000
9 Oct 19959 TN24 0AUSemi-detached£48,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). 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.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (15); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1967-1975 (5); 2021 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

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 C (49% of about 810 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

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 29 addresses are between 44 m and 52 m above sea level (48 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
TN24 0AU100%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 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Wye 229,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Ham Street 82,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterside Willesborough160 m
Car parksCivic Centre and Stour Centre Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN49.7 km (31 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW76 km (47 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashford Medical Partnership710 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Willesborough Pharmacy710 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Romney House Dental Practice640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalOne Ashford Hospital720 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationAshford Police Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - East Stour Filling Station Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha260 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.7 ha160 m
AllotmentsOrion Way Allotment 5,210 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Willesborough Windmill, a listed building (Grade II*), 150 m south-east. 42 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Willesborough WindmillListed building, Grade II*150 m south-east
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south
A moated site and associated garden earthworks 460m south east of Boys HallScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sweetwillow WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Lords WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Fostal WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Breeches WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Spelders HillHill3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-east
Singleton LakeLake or reservoir3.8 km (2.4 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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 59210
Under 55829

21 of the street's 29 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), 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
Willesborough Infant SchoolPrimary4–7440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willesborough Junior SchoolPrimary7–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Norton Knatchbull SchoolSecondary11–18820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The North SchoolSecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
East Stour Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 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
Willesborough Windmill TN24 0QGOther catering premises140 m5 Very good14 Dec 2020
Costcutter TN24 0QLRetailers - other220 m5 Very good28 Jun 2024
Yummy TN24 0JQTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m4 Good12 Mar 2026
Willesborough Cafe TN24 0JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
Willesborough Fish & Chips TN24 0JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
Hooden Smokehouse and Cellar TN24 0NYPub/bar/nightclub350 m4 Good16 Jul 2026
Sumo Donuts TN24 0TDRetailers - other360 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Bio Pathica Ltd TN24 0TDDistributors/Transporters400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good28 Nov 2023
Cyto-Solutions Ltd TN24 0TDDistributors/Transporters400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good4 Dec 2017
Willesborough Stores TN24 0JZRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Dec 2025
The New Fox Inn Limited TN24 0QRPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jan 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.

112 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Other theft32
Criminal damage and arson10
Anti-social behaviour10
Shoplifting7
Public order5
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Robbery2
Bicycle theft2
Other crime2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (55); On or near Hythe Road (14); On or near Cornes Close (12); On or near Greystones (10); On or near Mill Lane (6).

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: 373 residents in 163 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 age4140
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications23%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 7 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

Oast Meadow · Harvey Road · Mill Lane · Field End · Greystones · Taywood Close · Fir Court · Waterside · Abbey Way · Fountains Close · Willow Tree Close · Cornes Close

All the streets in TN24 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.