Closing date for offers: Friday 11 December 2026
Cairn Ryan Day Hospital, London Road, River, Kent
- Land size
- 1.19 acres
- Use Class
- Use Class: E
Key Features
- Freehold Development Site
- Positive Pre-app for 28 flats or 58-bed care
- Unconditional offers preferred
- Direct trains to Victoria
Description
DHA Land has been instructed by NHS Property Services to market the former Cairn Ryan Day Hospital, a vacant healthcare and office building (Use Class E(e)) declared surplus to NHS requirements. The freehold site extends to approximately 1.19 acres (0.48 ha).
The brick-built main building has a dormer roof and a single-storey rear annex, providing
approximately 735 sq m (7,911 sq ft) GIA. The site is broadly rectangular, falls from east to
west and is well screened by mature boundary trees. It is bounded by London Road (east), the railway (west), Kearsney Bowling Club (north) and Beechwood Court (south). Access is taken directly from London Road, and the open land to the rear gives scope for redevelopment, subject to planning.
Temple Ewell sits on the edge of the Alkham Valley, close to the Kent Downs National
Landscape, with a Co-op, traditional pubs and Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens nearby.
Dover town centre is around 2.5 miles to the south-east.
Kearsney station (c.150 m) has direct services to London Victoria in around 1 hour 55 minutes and is one stop from Dover Priory (high speed to St Pancras 1 Hour and 5m). A bus stop outside the site serves Dover, Folkestone and the Alkham Valley, and the A2, A256 and A20 are close by.
The site is accessed via London Road down a slope and past some mature trees into the car park hard standing.
We are setting a bid deadline of the 11th of December for any interested parties to submit bids.
Map Location
Property details
- Tenure
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- Council Tax Band
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- Date Posted
- 2026-11-06
Market Value Analysis
Compared with 116 Development Land listings in South East England (1+ acres).
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
- Electricity
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- Water
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- Heating
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- Broadband
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- Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions
- Public Rights of Way
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- Private Rights of Way
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- Listed Property
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- Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.
Property Features
- Accessibility
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- Parking
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- Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.
Connectivity
Broadband
Fastest speed available at this postcode
50 Mbps
Superfast
Suitable for
- HD streaming
- Video calls
- Web & social
Mobile signal
Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.
Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.
Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.
Nearest Schools
Primary
- River Primary School461 metresOfsted: Good *
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 384
- Type
- Community school
- Temple Ewell Church of England Primary School720 metresOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 154
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Faith
- Church of England
- Green Park Community Primary School1 mileNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 374
- Type
- Community school
- Whitfield Aspen School1.1 milesOfsted: Good *
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 662
- Type
- Community school
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School1.2 milesNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pupils
- 138
- Type
- Academy converter
Secondary
- Dover Christ Church Academy1.1 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 761
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Dover Grammar School for Boys1.5 milesOfsted: Good *
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 960
- Type
- Foundation school
- Gender
- Boys
- Astor Secondary School1.6 milesOfsted report card · Mar 2026
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 732
- Type
- Academy converter
- St Edmund's Catholic School1.7 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 644
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Faith
- Roman Catholic
- Dover Grammar School for Girls1.7 milesOfsted: Good *
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 847
- Type
- Community school
- Gender
- Girls
* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.
Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.
Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.
Amenities
Supermarket
GP surgery
Pharmacy
Hospital
Green space
Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.
The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.
Getting Around
Nearest station
Nearest bus stop
Typical drive times
Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.
Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.
Flood Risk
Environment Agency open data, checked around the advertised map pin for the listed acreage. Long-term risk counts flood defences; the planning map's flood zones do not. Provided by LandSale, not the listing agent, and not part of the agent's particulars. Risk varies across a holding, so verify before committing.
Rivers and the sea
Planning map: Flood Zone 1.
Surface water
Not at the pin: mapped about 30 metres away.
These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.
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