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On The Street, in Biddenden, Smarden & High Halden
What it's like at TN27 8QA: 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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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.
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.
| Gilletts, The StreetDetached | Aug 1998 | £595,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amberstone, The StreetTerraced | Jun 2000 | £170,000 | 66 m² | £2,576/m² | 2 |
| Chequers Inn, The StreetOther | Nov 2024 | £885,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Gilletts, The StreetOther | Jul 2022 | £3,000,000 | 462 m² | £6,494/m² | 3 |
| Old Post Office, The StreetTerraced | Feb 2007 | £285,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Old School House, The StreetSemi-detached | May 2017 | £510,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Parsonage House, The StreetTerraced | May 2015 | £410,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Providence House, The StreetDetached | May 2019 | £570,000 | – | – | 2 |
| The Old Rectory, The StreetDetached | Sept 2013 | £490,000 | 198 m² | £2,475/m² | 2 |
| The Pent House, The StreetDetached | Nov 2025 | £445,000 | 119 m² | £3,739/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Pluckley, a drive away (4.3 km), with 115k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 62 minutes away by public transport (27 by car).
Central London is 70 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Smarden Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 89% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
Grammar schools are within reach: Cranbrook School (9.7 km) and Highworth Grammar School (13.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 5.0 km away, with D R Luckhurst Butchers closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The GP surgery is around 41 minutes on foot or by bus.
For a haircut, Hq Headquarters Hair & Beauty is 5.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is William Harvey Hospital, 17 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: 13 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Smarden is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Chequers Inn the nearest pub (50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 295 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 50% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 256 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Sharps Field, 4.4 km away; for exercise, Games Barn (5.6 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Southend is 50 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 60 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% 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.
8 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 Old School House | II | 0 m |
| Heathfield Cottage Post Office Sloane | II | 30 m |
| the Chequers Inn | II | 30 m |
| Hadley Cottage Hadley House Homeside | II | 30 m |
| Amberstone the Cobbles the Old Post Office | II | 30 m |
| Gillets House | II | 40 m |
| Dragon Cottage Dragon House | II* | 40 m |
| Parsonage House, West End House and Parsonage Cottage. | II | 50 m |
| Wistaria Cottage | II | 50 m |
| Providence House and The Pent House | II | 50 m |
| Village Pump | II | 50 m |
| K6 Telephone Kiosk | II | 50 m |
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%.
3 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 8QA →
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.
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 | 2.0% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.4% | 1.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 60.3% | 79.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 29.1% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.6% | 7.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Nearest: Faversham Swimming Pools · about 33 min
Nearest: Port Lympne Wild Animal Park · about 31 min
Nearest: Gallagher Stadium · about 32 min
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.