Windmill Road Herne, Canterbury

85 addresses across 4 postcodes (CT6), about 600 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 5601548.

  • Sales: 127 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £365,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 56 homes have an energy certificate (C: 17, D: 29, E: 9, 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 84% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Herne Bay, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 44 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 85 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Surgery, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 860 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 24 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
20261£365,000£365,000£365,000
20253£335,000£300,000£360,000
20243£319,000£300,000£365,000
20235£395,000£342,500£450,000
20225£450,000£350,000£526,000
20216£350,000£305,000£410,000
20203£340,000£333,000£350,000
20195£302,500£287,500£355,000
20186£323,750£275,000£350,000
20171£345,000£345,000£345,000
201610£270,000£240,000£319,995
20152£235,000£205,000£265,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 127)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Aug 202631 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£365,000
25 Sep 202544 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£360,000
20 Jun 202549 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£300,000
13 Mar 202514 CT6 7DLDetached£335,000
29 Nov 202454 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£319,000
8 Mar 202441 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£300,000
11 Jan 202474 CT6 7DESemi-detached£365,000
27 Sep 202371 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£430,000
22 Sep 202311 CT6 7DLDetached£342,500
24 Aug 202323 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£395,000
9 Aug 202322 CT6 7DLDetached£450,000
14 Feb 202357 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£365,000
5 Dec 202283 CT6 7DEDetached£470,000
30 Jun 202229 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£350,000
22 Mar 20228 CT6 7DLDetached£526,000
17 Mar 202242 CT6 7DFDetached£450,000
18 Feb 202275 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£370,000
26 Nov 202113 CT6 7DLDetached£390,000
21 Oct 202126 CT6 7DLDetached£350,000
27 Sep 202147 CT6 7DLTerraced£305,000
2 Aug 202120 CT6 7DLDetached£350,000
29 Jun 202124 CT6 7DLDetached£410,000
11 Feb 202136 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£322,000
14 Dec 202064 CT6 7DEDetached£333,000
4 Dec 202081 CT6 7DEDetached£340,000
14 Aug 202023 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£350,000
12 Dec 201987 CT6 7DEDetached£302,500
2 Dec 201962 CT6 7DEDetached£295,000
4 Oct 201980 CT6 7DESemi-detached£355,000
15 Jul 201963 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£306,000
20 Mar 201956 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£287,500
21 Nov 201834 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£275,000
21 Sep 201819 CT6 7DLDetached£350,000
20 Aug 201874 CT6 7DESemi-detached£330,000
25 Jul 201860 CT6 7DEDetached£320,000
26 Apr 201889 CT6 7DEDetached£327,500
3 Apr 201842 CT6 7DFDetached£280,000
17 Oct 201733 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£345,000
16 Dec 201624 CT6 7DLDetached£319,995
9 Dec 201627 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£310,000
24 Nov 201670 CT6 7DESemi-detached£293,000
18 Nov 201675 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£245,000
23 Sep 201672 CT6 7DESemi-detached£273,000
16 Sep 201683 CT6 7DEDetached£278,000
7 Apr 201630 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£240,000
30 Mar 201627 CT6 7DLSemi-detached£255,000
25 Feb 201676 CT6 7DESemi-detached£267,000
8 Jan 201646 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£265,000
28 Sep 201574 CT6 7DESemi-detached£265,000
17 Feb 201569 CT6 7DFSemi-detached£205,000

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

56 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (23); Bungalow, semi-detached (21); House, semi-detached (8). Built: 1950-1966 (39); 1967-1975 (16); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (53).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (47% of about 1,800 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: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 14 September 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CT6 7DLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CT6 7DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CT6 7DEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CT6 7DRnot 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 85 addresses are between 41 m and 44 m above sea level (43 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
CT6 7DE100%100%100%0%
CT6 7DF100%84%84%0%
CT6 7DL100%100%100%0%
CT6 7DR100%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 stationsHerne Bay 835,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Chestfield and Swalecliffe 108,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Sturry 112,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Windmill Herne70 m
Bus or coach stationKeynes College University of Kent8.3 km (5.2 miles)
Car parksWilliam Street Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN39 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN85.8 km (53 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 surgeriesPark Surgery1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hollytree Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mydentist1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital (Herne Bay)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationKent Police1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.8 km (1.1 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sarah-Jayne Memorial Play Area 1,600 m²380 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.7 ha210 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.7 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Herne Windmill, a listed building (Grade I), 70 m east. 35 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Herne WindmillListed building, Grade I70 m east
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade I670 m (0.4 miles) south
Underdown HouseListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site9.2 km (5.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Broomfield OrchardWood880 m (0.5 miles) east
Brook's PondLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Herne BayBay2.3 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Beltinge CliffCliff or slope2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Sweech HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) east
Long RockWetland4.8 km (3 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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 5940
Under 558185

4 of the street's 85 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), 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
Herne Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Herne Church of England Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Herne Bay Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Herne Bay Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Herne Bay High SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Ossie's (Broomfield) Fish & Chips CT6 7UDTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m2 Improvement necessary9 Mar 2026
Premier Stores 7 To 7 News Ltd CT6 7UDRetailers - other350 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Beaver Lodge Cafe CT6 7HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good12 Jun 2023
High Pines Residential Home Ltd CT6 7ESHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Jan 2026
Broomfield Lodge Care Home CT6 7DNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Little Acorns (Herne Preschool) CT6 7ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 2024
Strode Park Foundation CT6 7NEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jun 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Other theft4
Anti-social behaviour2
Public order2
Possession of weapons1
Drugs1
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Strode Park Road (7); On or near Radnor Close (6); On or near Mill Lane (4); On or near Windmill Road (3); On or near Mount View Road (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 862 residents in 393 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 age6140
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over43%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright65%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)48%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%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 away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 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

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.

  • CT6 7DL: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • CT6 7DF: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • CT6 7DE: 18 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • CT6 7DR: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mount View Road · Jersey Farm Close · Strode Park Road · Windmill Close · Woodrow Chase · Mill Court Close · Strode Park Road · Radnor Close · Sondes Close · Charnwood Road · Mill Lane · Epping Close

All the streets in CT6 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.