Wren Close Orpington, Bromley

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (BR5), about 20 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20301352.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £330,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 5, 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 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Pauls Cray Hill Country Park, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 64 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broomwood Health Centre, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 209 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
20231£330,000£330,000£330,000
20221£350,000£350,000£350,000
20212£304,000£298,000£310,000
20201£300,000£300,000£300,000
20191£285,000£285,000£285,000
20182£265,000£245,000£285,000
20171£308,000£308,000£308,000
20163£285,000£285,000£295,000
20152£205,000£180,000£230,000
20141£145,000£145,000£145,000
20122£139,000£123,000£155,000
20111£174,000£174,000£174,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Aug 20239 BR5 3NUTerraced£330,000
13 Jun 202221 BR5 3NUTerraced£350,000
30 Sep 20215 BR5 3NUTerraced£310,000
30 Jun 202112 BR5 3NUTerraced£298,000
5 May 202011 BR5 3NUTerraced£300,000
19 Sep 20196 BR5 3NUTerraced£297,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jul 20191 BR5 3NUTerraced£285,000
16 Mar 201819 BR5 3NUTerraced£245,000
19 Jan 201816 BR5 3NUTerraced£285,000
10 Jul 201721 BR5 3NUTerraced£308,000
24 Jun 201621 BR5 3NUTerraced£295,000
14 Jun 20166 BR5 3NUTerraced£285,000
8 Jun 201620 BR5 3NUTerraced£285,000
21 Dec 20151 BR5 3NUTerraced£255,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Nov 201520 BR5 3NUTerraced£180,000
29 Jun 20155 BR5 3NUTerraced£230,000
6 Feb 201410 BR5 3NUTerraced£195,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 20147 BR5 3NUTerraced£145,000
30 Jul 20128 BR5 3NUTerraced£123,000
4 Jul 20126 BR5 3NUTerraced£155,000
2 Sep 201116 BR5 3NUTerraced£174,000
30 Apr 200917 BR5 3NUTerraced£152,000
4 Jun 200821 BR5 3NUSemi-detached£185,000
9 May 200820 BR5 3NUTerraced£152,000
15 Jun 200716 BR5 3NUTerraced£182,200
30 Apr 200710 BR5 3NUTerraced£189,950
10 Aug 200619 BR5 3NUTerraced£140,000
20 Jun 20069 BR5 3NUTerraced£153,000
28 Jul 200420 BR5 3NUTerraced£133,000
5 Mar 200412 BR5 3NUTerraced£146,000
27 Mar 200318 BR5 3NUTerraced£113,500
20 Dec 20027 BR5 3NUFlat or maisonette£119,950
22 Nov 200221 BR5 3NUSemi-detached£125,500
17 Oct 200216 BR5 3NUTerraced£118,500
11 Oct 200217 BR5 3NUTerraced£125,000
20 Sep 20022 BR5 3NUTerraced£105,000
10 Oct 20015 BR5 3NUSemi-detached£98,500
21 Sep 20017 BR5 3NUFlat or maisonette£77,000
3 Sep 200111 BR5 3NUTerraced£99,500
29 Jun 200119 BR5 3NUTerraced£76,000
18 Sep 200012 BR5 3NUTerraced£89,950
25 Aug 200020 BR5 3NUTerraced£73,000
31 Aug 199911 BR5 3NUTerraced£69,950
1 Dec 19989 BR5 3NUTerraced£70,000
26 Jun 19982 BR5 3NUTerraced£58,000
20 Mar 19988 BR5 3NUTerraced£55,000
26 Sep 199721 BR5 3NUSemi-detached£64,000
29 Aug 19971 BR5 3NUTerraced£59,000
13 Dec 199617 BR5 3NUTerraced£58,500
1 Aug 19962 BR5 3NUTerraced£46,500

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); House, end-terrace (6); House, enclosed mid-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (15); 1991-1995 (3); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 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 (41% of about 740 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
BR5 3NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BR5 3NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 22 addresses are between 64 m and 66 m above sea level (65 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
BR5 3NS100%100%100%0%
BR5 3NU100%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 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Swanley 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Petts Wood 1.7 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wotton Green / Sandway Road St Mary Cray310 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Footscray Lane Sidcup4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Car parksCar Park at Rear of Templegate House2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY13 km (8.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW35 km (22 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broomwood Health Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osbon Pharmacy650 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalQueen Mary's Hospital Sidcup Elective Surgical Hub2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationSwanley Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone670 m (0.4 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Pauls Cray Hill Country Park 31 ha170 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,190 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.3 ha880 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 41 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 600 m (0.4 miles) west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) west
Church of St PaulinusListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Kevington HallListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south
Romano-British masonry building and Saxon cemetery, Fordcroft, OrpingtonScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Ruxley old churchScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Priory Gardens, OrpingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Highlands WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) east
Garland HillHill710 m (0.4 miles) north
The WarrenWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Hockenden WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Child's WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Rush PondLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-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)12.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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 552122

1 of the street's 22 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 Paul's Cray Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11160 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manor Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St. Mary Cray Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Leesons Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 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 AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 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
Poverest Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Philomena's Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Kemnal Technology CollegeSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 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
Harris Primary Academy OrpingtonPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
St Pauls Cray Church Of England Primary School BR5 3WDSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good14 Nov 2025
Shelly Tots Pre-school BR5 3WDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good6 Nov 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.

209 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences71
Vehicle crime45
Anti-social behaviour29
Drugs16
Public order12
Other crime10
Other theft10
Criminal damage and arson8
Burglary4
Possession of weapons3
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Barnfield Road (61); On or near Admiral Close (34); On or near Teal Avenue (18); On or near Wagtail Way (14); On or near Francis Road (11).

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: 299 residents in 140 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 age4040
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Sandpiper Way · Kingfisher Close · Watermint Close · Otters Close · Admiral Close · Mayfly Close · Buttermere Road · Teal Avenue · Wagtail Way · Barnfield Road · Doveney Close · Augustine Road

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.