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On High Street, in Charing, Pluckley & Challock
What it's like at TN27 0HX: every home that has sold on High Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on High Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 127 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 28, High StreetTerraced | Oct 2025 | £550,000 | 168 m² | £3,274/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30, High StreetTerraced | Nov 2017 | £700,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, High StreetTerraced | Jan 2026 | £530,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 34, High StreetTerraced | Jun 2021 | £460,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, High StreetTerraced | Aug 2005 | £400,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40 - 42, High StreetTerraced | Mar 2011 | £193,600 | – | – | 1 |
| 46, High StreetFlat | May 1997 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, High StreetTerraced | Mar 2011 | £230,000 | 88 m² | £2,614/m² | 2 |
| 50, High StreetTerraced | Oct 2010 | £115,000 | – | – | 2 |
| North End Cottage, 36, High StreetTerraced | Jun 2021 | £460,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Charing (Kent), a few minutes' walk (400 m), with 94k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Ashford International.
The nearest bus stop is The Moat, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 510, 976); 4 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 73 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Charing Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 93% met the expected standard.
Grammar schools are within reach: Highworth Grammar School (6.9 km) and The Norton Knatchbull School (8.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 5.2 km away, with G, M & M Johns Family Butchers closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Charing Surgery (250 m), with The Charing Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Harvey's Hair is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is William Harvey Hospital, 11 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 55% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 16 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Jasmine House is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and The Charing Bar Company the nearest pub (50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 408 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 49% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 189 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Cherry Downs, 4.2 km away; for exercise, Games Barn (5.0 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.6 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Southend is 42 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 68 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
16 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 30 and 32, High Street | II | 0 m |
| North End Cottage | II | 10 m |
| Sherborne House | II* | 20 m |
| Ridgemount | II | 20 m |
| 38-42, High Street | II | 20 m |
| 21,23 and 25, High Street | II | 30 m |
| 24, High Street | II | 30 m |
| 44-48, High Street | II | 30 m |
| Former Stable to Rear of Nos 27 and 29 (Sherborne House) | II | 40 m |
| 20 and 22, High Street | II | 40 m |
| Chesnut House Tea Rooms | II | 40 m |
| Peirce House | II* | 50 m |
Nearest 12 shown. Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Weald of Kent constituency: Katie Lam MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 8,422 (16.6%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 23%, Reform UK 20%, Green Party 9%.
4 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near TN27 0HX →
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Ashford since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 127 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 61 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 13 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 8.1% | 1.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 47.9% | 79.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 32.9% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.9% | 7.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 0.8% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.