Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices are built from 201 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 14 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £234,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -13.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -37.3%.
Median price paid
£234,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-13.5%
Change in real terms
-37.3%
Median per m²
£3,629
HM Land Registry201 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 14 May 2026
Section 01
How Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £137,500 | £305,315 |
| 2000s | 5 | £249,950 | £455,335 |
| 2010s | 8 | £244,973 | £345,411 |
| 2020s | 4 | £222,500 | £227,337 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells is £366,000 in 2021; the lowest is £90,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £90,000 to £240,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £195,231, so the real change over the whole record is +25.6% — about +0.79% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: -13.5% in cash against -37.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 3 Chartwell Lodge | 14 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| Apartment 9 Chartwell Lodge | 24 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £242,000 | £242,000 |
| Apartment 14 Chartwell Lodge | 16 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £169,500 | £173,185 |
| Apartment 12 Chartwell Lodge | 5 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| Apartment 16 Chartwell Lodge | 10 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| Flat 15 Bishops Court | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £495,000 | £505,761 |
| Flat 7 Manor Gate, 9 | 5 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| Apartment 31 Chartwell Lodge | 12 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| Flat 6 Fernside | 11 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £333,000 | £340,239 |
| Flat 8 Bishops Court | 1 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £486,000 | £496,565 |
| Apartment 36 Chartwell Lodge | 3 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| Apartment 35 Chartwell Lodge | 20 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| Flat 4 Bishops Court | 25 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £490,000 | £515,597 |
| Apartment 24 Chartwell Lodge | 12 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| Apartment 39 Chartwell Lodge | 21 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| Flat 7 Bishops Court | 21 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £495,000 | £534,828 |
| Apartment 10 Chartwell Lodge | 15 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| Apartment 31 Chartwell Lodge | 24 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| Flat 6 Bishops Court | 14 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £495,000 | £534,828 |
| Apartment 19 Chartwell Lodge | 9 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £162,500 | £175,575 |
| Apartment 8 Chartwell Lodge | 14 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| Apartment 11 Chartwell Lodge | 18 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| Apartment 20 Chartwell Lodge | 30 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| Flat 2 Ashburnhams | 7 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £352,000 | £444,731 |
| Apartment 27 Chartwell Lodge | 24 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £271,640 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 3 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £239,950 (2007) | £160,000 (2026) | -2.1% | -4.9% |
| APARTMENT 9 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £332,500 (2009) | £242,000 (2026) | -1.9% | -4.7% |
| APARTMENT 14 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £229,950 (2008) | £169,500 (2025) | -1.8% | -4.6% |
| APARTMENT 12 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £285,000 (2008) | £245,000 (2025) | -0.9% | -3.7% |
| APARTMENT 16 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £279,950 (2008) | £180,000 (2025) | -2.6% | -5.4% |
| FLAT 15 BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road | £380,000 (2008) | £495,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 7 MANOR GATE, 9 Bishops Down Road | £205,000 (2014) | £240,000 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.6% |
| APARTMENT 31 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £211,000 (2009) | £185,000 (2025) | -0.8% | -3.7% |
| FLAT 6 FERNSIDE Bishops Down Road | £65,500 (1996) | £333,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| FLAT 8 BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road | £110,000 (1996) | £486,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| APARTMENT 36 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £249,950 (2009) | £195,000 (2025) | -1.5% | -4.4% |
| APARTMENT 35 CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road | £369,950 (2008) | £290,000 (2024) | -1.5% | -4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 190 | 94.5% | £232,000 | £42,500 – £495,000 |
| Detached | 11 | 5.5% | £1,050,000 | £140,000 – £3,165,300 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells
190 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11 freehold — 94.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £231,000 and the median freehold sale £1,050,000 — a gap of +354.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 190 | 94.5% | £231,000 |
| Freehold | 11 | 5.5% | £1,050,000 |
| New build | 45 | 22.4% | £239,950 |
| Existing home | 156 | 77.6% | £231,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +3.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
Section 07
Living in Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Tonbridge and Malling, 50.0% of 57,194 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 484 | 0.8% |
| B | 10,037 | 17.5% |
| C | 18,085 | 31.6% |
| D | 19,300 | 33.7% |
| E | 7,060 | 12.3% |
| F | 1,680 | 2.9% |
| G | 548 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Tonbridge and Malling at £1,481 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,026 for a one-bedroom home and £1,616 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £234,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.56% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of TN4, 199 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 68 violent, 4 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 32 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 132,201 residents the 2021 census counted in Tonbridge and Malling, that is 1.51 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells
The 2021 census counted 132,201 residents in Tonbridge and Malling across 53,571 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a TN4 postcode: 8 primary, 5 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Memorial Diocesan School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,913 |
| Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys | Secondary | Community school | 1,875 |
| The Skinners' School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,149 |
| Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,123 |
| St Gregory's Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,093 |
| St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 633 |
| Southborough CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 631 |
| St Mark's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 333 |
| St Matthew's High Brooms Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 293 |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 241 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| High Brooms Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Tunbridge Wells Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Tunbridge Wells West (Spa Valley Railway) | Tram | 2.4 km |
| Tunbridge Wells West (Spa Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 2.4 km |
Section 09
How Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells sits above that national figure — +49.2%.
Within Tunbridge Wells the street ranks 583 of 898 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £240,000 (-2.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,629 per square metre, across 53 of the 201 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £42,500 to £3,165,300. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells sits in Tonbridge and Malling, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Tonbridge and Malling at 12.0 times median local earnings of £34,735 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- London Road£209,125 median
- Queens Road£180,000 median
- Mount Ephraim£249,225 median
- Silverdale Road£181,750 median
- St Johns Road£291,833 median
- Molyneux Park Road£250,000 median
- Woodbury Park Road£141,000 median
- Southwood Road£179,950 median
- Edward Street£188,500 median
- Springfield Road£145,000 median
- Park Road£187,500 median
- Prospect Road£285,750 median
- Stephens Road£363,750 median
- Exchange Mews£233,000 median
- Culverden Park Road£168,500 median
- Meadow Road£220,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 6, FERNSIDE Bishops Down Road7 sales
- FLAT 7, BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road7 sales
- FLAT 5, FERNSIDE Bishops Down Road6 sales
- FLAT 1A, FERNSIDE Bishops Down Road6 sales
- WESTERING CLOSE Bishops Down Road5 sales
- FLAT 10, BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road5 sales
- APARTMENT 3, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 9, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 14, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 31, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 10, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, FERNSIDE Bishops Down Road4 sales
- 8 Bishops Down Road4 sales
- FLAT 15, BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 36, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 35, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 24, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, BISHOPS COURT Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 23, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 7, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 28, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 6, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 34, CHARTWELL LODGE Bishops Down Road3 sales
Back to Tunbridge Wells house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells?
The median price paid in Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells across every sale on the register is £234,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells?
201 sales are on record for Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells, the most recent completing on 14 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -13.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -37.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £366,000, set in 2021. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells?
£3,629 per square metre, from the 53 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 14 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Bishops Down Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.