Windmill Road Canterbury

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT1), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5601547.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £275,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 8, E: 1, G: 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 Canterbury costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Canterbury East, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 46 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Dover Road Surgery, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 147 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£275,000£275,000£275,000
20111£155,000£155,000£155,000
20072£156,000£147,000£165,000
20051£130,000£130,000£130,000
20031£97,500£97,500£97,500
20021£92,000£92,000£92,000
19962£45,579£43,158£48,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Jul 20251 CT1 1RESemi-detached£275,000
11 Mar 20217 CT1 1REOther£380,150Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Sep 20113 CT1 1RESemi-detached£155,000
16 Nov 200710 CT1 1RETerraced£165,000
9 Mar 20073 CT1 1RESemi-detached£147,000
25 May 20057 CT1 1RESemi-detached£130,000
31 Jan 20036 CT1 1RESemi-detached£97,500
22 Nov 20027 CT1 1RESemi-detached£92,000
26 Nov 19968 CT1 1RESemi-detached£48,000
3 May 19963 CT1 1RESemi-detached£43,158

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); Flat (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (6); 1950-1966 (5); 2021 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,419£2,957£3,495£4,032£4,839

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (41% of about 750 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): Canterbury and surrounding area. Dated 25.02.2015 effective 25.02.2016.
  • 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 12 January 2027 to 14 January 2027: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) 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

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 19 addresses are between 46 m and 48 m above sea level (47 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
CT1 1RD100%100%100%0%
CT1 1RE100%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 stationsCanterbury East 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Canterbury West 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Sturry 112,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Windmill Road Canterbury50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Canterbury1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksHolman's Meadow Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN43.2 km (27 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN90.4 km (56 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Dover Road Surgery900 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eckersley Pharmacy550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chopra Dental LTD1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalSt Martin's Hospital430 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationCanterbury Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesCanterbury Upper Bridge Street1.1 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 6.1 ha100 m
Play area12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 180 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha190 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pilgrims Way Allotments 3.0 ha540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 6.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Martin, a listed building (Grade I), 450 m (0.3 miles) west. 62 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade I450 m (0.3 miles) west
St Augustine's monastic conduit house, King's ParkScheduled monument490 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Chapel of St Pancras Ruins Remains of St Augustine's AbbeyListed building, Grade I820 m (0.5 miles) west
St Augustine's AbbeyScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) west
Conduit House, NE of Victoria married quarters, Military RoadScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) north
The Great Gateway, or Fyndon's Gateway, at St Augustine's CollegeListed building, Grade I930 m (0.6 miles) west
42-45, Ivy LaneListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) west
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site1 km (0.6 miles) west
Dane John GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Realm WoodWood640 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Timpson WoodWood660 m (0.4 miles) north
Reed PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Bingley IslandIsland2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Golden HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) west
Westbere MarshesWetland4.5 km (2.8 miles) north-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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
55 to 5940
Under 551419

5 of the street's 19 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 Canterbury: see them on the Canterbury 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
Barton Manor SchoolSecondary11–19430 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Barton Court Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pilgrims' Way Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury Roman CatholicPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Parkside Community Foundation Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Johns Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Methodist Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Anselm's Catholic School, Canterbury Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Chaucer House Care Home CT1 1RDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good22 Oct 2026
St Martins Post Office CT1 1PURetailers - other120 m4 Good20 Feb 2026
Spring Lane Neighbourhood Centre CT1 1RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Route 23 CT1 1RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Lams Kitchen CT1 1RYTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Jun 2026
Sussex Avenue SSL Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Londis - Spring Lane Stores CT1 1RYRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Apr 2024
Ocean Fish Bar CT1 1RYTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Feb 2026
ISS Facility Services CT1 1TDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2025
St Martins Priory CT1 1PWSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jul 2025

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.

147 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Anti-social behaviour54
Criminal damage and arson13
Other theft5
Vehicle crime5
Bicycle theft4
Burglary3
Public order3
Drugs2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Windmill Road (46); On or near Windmill Close (25); On or near Avon Close (24); On or near Warwick Road (22); On or near Nonsuch Close (14).

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: 226 residents in 84 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 age4540
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%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)33%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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: SOUTHERN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 January 2027 to 14 January 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, semi-detached (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 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.

  • CT1 1RE: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • CT1 1RD: 1 address of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Connors Way · St Martins Hill · Querns Road · Ellisons Walk · Avon Close · Littlebourne Road · Smith Way · Conference Walk · Kent Avenue · Cotter Way · Maude Way · Nonsuch Close

All the streets in CT1 and across Canterbury.

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.