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On The Street, in Charing, Pluckley & Challock
What it's like at TN27 0QS: every home that has sold on The 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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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.
Sales and extensions on The Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 74 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Yew Tree Cottages, The StreetTerraced | Sept 2016 | £337,500 | 97 m² | £3,479/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Gate, The StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2003 | £235,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Corner House, The StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £535,000 | 165 m² | £3,242/m² | 1 |
| Forge Ridge, The StreetDetached | Jun 2012 | £277,000 | 147 m² | £1,884/m² | 1 |
| The Mount, The StreetSemi-detached | Jul 1998 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Old Stables, The StreetDetached | Oct 2016 | £335,000 | 107 m² | £3,131/m² | 3 |
| Willow Cottage, The StreetDetached | Oct 2018 | £570,000 | 115 m² | £4,957/m² | 1 |
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 Pluckley, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 115k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Black Horse, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 976).
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 Pluckley Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 82% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Charing Church of England Primary School (2 km).
The nearest secondary is Chilmington Green School, 6.6 km away.
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, 700 m away, with D R Luckhurst Butchers closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Charing Surgery (4.6 km), with The Charing Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (4.6 km).
For a haircut, Harvey's Hair is 4.9 km 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.
Espresso Bar is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and Black Horse 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 Chilston Park, 5.7 km away; for exercise, Games Barn (2.7 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.
7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Butchers Shop and Street House | II | 0 m |
| the Old Bakery the Post Office Stores | II | 20 m |
| Pluckley Church of England Primary School | II | 30 m |
| the Black Horse Inn | II | 40 m |
| Coopers Cottage | II | 50 m |
| Corner House and Church Gates | II | 50 m |
| Yew Tree Cottage | II | 60 m |
| Church Gates Church Gates Cottage | II | 60 m |
| Cliffe Cottage | II | 70 m |
| Forge Cottage | II | 80 m |
| Forge Hill House | II | 90 m |
| The Old Forge | II | 90 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%.
1 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 0QS →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
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.
On this street: 0 of 40 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 12 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 | 7.9% | 1.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 48.1% | 79.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 33.0% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.8% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 74 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.