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On Rock Hill Road, in Charing, Pluckley & Challock
What it's like at TN27 9DP: every home that has sold on Rock Hill Road 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 Rock Hill Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 30 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Jubilee VillasSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £495,000 | 100 m² | £4,950/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairways, Rock Hill RoadDetached | Aug 2009 | £495,000 | 256 m² | £1,934/m² | 2 |
| Rock Hill Barn, Rock Hill RoadDetached | May 2020 | £710,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Barn End, Rock Hill Farm, Rock Hill RoadDetached | Jun 2008 | £468,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Rock Hill Oast, Rock Hill RoadDetached | Oct 2016 | £675,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Rockhill House, Rock Hill RoadDetached | Mar 2014 | £995,000 | – | – | 3 |
| The Olde Carriage House, Rock Hill RoadDetached | Apr 2004 | £355,000 | – | – | 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 drive away (4.3 km), with 115k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is The George, 350 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 Egerton Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 55% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Charing Church of England Primary School (2 km).
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, 3.5 km away, with Egerton Village Store closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Len Valley Practice (5.0 km), with Saxon Warrior Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (5.0 km).
For a haircut, Phase Hair & Beauty 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.
Pluckley Community Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (3.4 km), and The Rose and Crown the nearest pub (1.9 km).
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, 3.1 km away; for exercise, Games Barn (250 m).
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.
5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Hill House | II | 0 m |
| Mounting Block Opposite Rock Hill House | II | 20 m |
| Weatherboarded Barn 50 Metres to North of Rock Hill House | II | 50 m |
| Range of Barns and Cartsheds 50 Metres to West of Rock Hill House | II | 50 m |
| the Old Vicarage | II | 120 m |
| Little Manor Cottage Spring Cottage | II | 130 m |
| Jonstone East and West | II | 140 m |
| Hill Dale | II | 190 m |
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%.
2 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 9DP →
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 16 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 6 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.
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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 30 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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