Penhurst doesn't really announce itself. There's no parade of shops, no obvious centre to walk to — this is the kind of hamlet in the Rother countryside where the streetscape is mostly hedgerow, farm gate, and the occasional roofline through the trees. You come here because you already know you want that, not because you happened to pass through. That's about as much as can honestly be said with numbers, because Penhurst is small enough that it doesn't generate its own statistics separately from the wider district — there's no local data here on schools, crime, transport or population to weigh up. What we do have is Rother's benchmark house price of £345,000, itself a shade below the South East regional median of £367,500, and both sit above the national median of £281,000 — so this is a place inside a district that's broadly mid-table for the region, not a premium enclave, whatever the postcard setting might suggest. Beyond that, the honest answer is that this piece can't tell you about the school run, the commute, or what's on the crime log for Penhurst itself — those figures simply don't exist at this level of granularity. If you're weighing up a move here, the sensible next step is to look at Rother district's fuller picture, and to visit and see the lanes, the quiet, and the distances for yourself.