Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in West Meade
West Meade is a large, wooded, low-density residential area in West Nashville, laid out on hilly ground between Harding Pike and Highway 70 South on former Meade family estate land. Its defining feature is not architectural, it is zoning: most of West Meade sits on a minimum lot size of 40,000 square feet.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~9 to 10 miles
- Zoning
- Mostly RS40, a 40,000 square foot minimum lot
What’s actually there
- A spiderweb of curving streets built around Brook Hollow Road and Davidson Drive
- Large wooded lots on genuinely hilly terrain
- Percy Warner Park and Edwin Warner Park with its nature center, directly adjacent
- No commercial core inside the neighborhood, with shopping on White Bridge Road, Harding Pike and Charlotte Avenue
- No historic overlay and no neighborhood-level restrictions beyond county code
The housing stock
Predominantly 1950s through 1970s ranch, split-level and split-foyer, plus custom mid-century and traditional two-story homes on large wooded lots, with a growing amount of teardown and rebuild producing much larger traditional houses. Redfin put the West Meade median at $1,012,500 for December 2024, up 2.8 percent year over year, with a median 111 days on market against 92 the year before. That price figure is now dated, so ask me for a current one, but the days-on-market number is the useful part and it has been consistently long here.
Getting around
Nine to ten miles to downtown, roughly fifteen to eighteen minutes off-peak via I-40 or Harding Pike. There is no walkable commercial core, so this is a driving neighborhood by design.
Things to do in West Meade
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Percy Warner Park
Adjacent Metro park with bridle trails, scenic drives and the Belle Meade boulevard entrance.
Edwin Warner Park and Nature Center
Adjacent park with a nature center and hiking trails.
Harpeth Hills Golf Course
2424 Old Hickory Boulevard, the public 18 holes inside the Warner Parks.
Warner Park Nature Center
7311 Highway 100, with trails and naturalist programming.
West Meade Waterfall
At Hathaway Court and Jocelyn Hollow Road, a small waterfall greenspace bought for preservation in 2013.
Hill Center at Belle Meade
4324 Harding Pike, the Publix-anchored center residents navigate by.
Richland Creek Greenway
Trailhead at 4601 Murphy Road, 4.1 paved miles along the creek.
Checked against each business as of August 14, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Subdivisions and named developments in West Meade
Once you are actually looking, you stop searching by city and start searching by subdivision. These are the names that come up, and what is true about each one that will still be true in three years. No prices, no dues, no days on market, because those change and this page would go stale telling you about them.
West Meade Farms
The original and by far the largest of them, platted straight off the Jackson family estate after it sold in 1944.
- Section 1 recorded February 12, 1948, with sections running through the 1950s. The plats use both a numbered series and a lettered series, so a legal description here may read Section 3 or Section Z.
- About 785 parcels carry the West Meade Farms legal description, the largest single name in west Nashville.
- Zoned RS40, a 40,000 square foot minimum lot, which is roughly nine tenths of an acre. That zoning is the structural reason lots here stay large even as houses get replaced.
- Sampled lots run from about half an acre to over an acre, with Jocelyn Hollow Road parcels closer to one and three quarter acres.
- Streets include Davidson Road, Brook Hollow Road, Vosswood Drive, Brownlee Drive and Ebenway Drive. Resubdivisions are still being recorded here, so the plat is not a closed book.
West Meade Village
The small one, and the one that interleaves with West Meade Farms street by street.
- Section A recorded July 23, 1948, with Sections B through E recorded across 1955.
- About 59 parcels, the smallest of the major West Meade names.
- Zoned RS40, with sampled lots running from about seven tenths of an acre to one and three quarter acres.
- On Jocelyn Hollow Road the even numbers are West Meade Village and the odd numbers are West Meade Farms. The legal description, not the street name, is what tells you which one you are buying.
West Meade Hills
The early 1960s wave, laid out across genuinely elevated ground.
- Section 1 recorded December 21, 1959, with sections running through 1964 and a second addition recorded in 1973.
- About 252 parcels, zoned RS40, with sampled lots running from just under an acre to about one and a third acres.
- Plateau Parkway is the spine, and the name is descriptive rather than decorative. The elevation is real and it is not going to change.
- Housing stock is predominantly early 1960s, following the plat dates.
West Meade Park
The western edge of West Meade, platted by its own corporate entity in the early 1960s.
- Section 1 recorded August 1, 1960, with Sections 2 through 4 recorded through June 1962.
- About 161 parcels, zoned RS40, with sampled lots running from about nine tenths of an acre to one and eight tenths.
- Carnavon Parkway is both its main street and the western boundary of West Meade as the neighborhood association defines it, so this plat sits literally at the edge.
- Melinda Drive and Clearbrook Drive make up the rest of it.
West Meade Estates
A long build-out, 1959 through 1965, sharing streets with West Meade Farms.
- Section 1 recorded January 27, 1959, with sections running through September 1965.
- About 157 parcels, zoned RS40, with sampled lots running from nine tenths of an acre to nearly one and a half.
- Clematis Drive and Torrington Road, plus part of Brownlee Drive.
- It shares Brownlee Drive with West Meade Farms, so again the legal description is what separates the two, not the address.
West Meade Highlands
The exception to the acre rule, and the one place where West Meade lots are genuinely smaller.
- Section 1 recorded June 13, 1966, Section 2 recorded May 15, 1967.
- About 103 parcels, and zoned RS15 rather than RS40, so the minimum lot is 15,000 square feet instead of 40,000.
- Sampled lots run roughly a third to just under half an acre, against about an acre everywhere else in West Meade. A buyer comparing West Meade listings will see a real and permanent break here.
- Streets are Percy Warner Boulevard, Cloudland Drive, Highland Crest Drive and Highland Park Drive.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. The zoned school is set by address and Metro’s choice and magnet applications run on their own calendar alongside it. Confirm both for the specific address rather than the street.
I publish district and school zoning as published fact and nothing more. No ratings, no rankings, no comparisons. School zones are set by the district, assigned by address rather than by subdivision or city name, and they change. Confirm any address with the district itself, and evaluate the schools yourself against what matters to your family.
What a buyer needs to know here
The RS40 zoning is the whole story, and it cuts both ways. A minimum lot of 40,000 square feet, just under an acre, is why West Meade has almost entirely escaped the tall-and-skinny infill that reshaped Sylvan Park and The Nations. It is also why you generally cannot split a lot here, so the subdivision upside people assume is usually not available. Second, the terrain. West Meade is steep and rocky, and steep lots here routinely require engineered foundations, retaining walls and rock excavation, and land disturbance beyond a threshold requires a grading permit from Metro Water. I am not going to quote you a slope percentage, because the number circulating online is not one I could verify from Metro’s own code. If you are considering building or a major addition, that is a call to Metro Planning before you buy, not after. Third, and this is the negotiating point nobody mentions: at a median of well over a hundred days on market, this is not a neighborhood where you need to waive contingencies to win.
Common questions
Why are the lots so big in West Meade?
Zoning. Most of West Meade is RS40, which sets a minimum lot size of 40,000 square feet, just under an acre. That single rule is why the neighborhood looks the way it does and why the infill pressure that hit Sylvan Park and The Nations largely passed it by. It also means splitting a lot is generally off the table, so do not buy on that assumption.
What should I watch for building on a West Meade lot?
The ground. This is steep, rocky terrain, and steep lots here routinely need engineered foundations, retaining walls and rock excavation, all of which are real money that does not show up in the listing price. Land disturbance past a threshold also needs a grading permit from Metro Water. Having built, this is exactly the conversation I would want to have standing on the lot with you rather than looking at photographs.
How fast do homes sell in West Meade?
Slowly, comparatively, and that is useful to know on both sides. The last figure I have showed a median of 111 days on market against 92 the year before. For a buyer that means real negotiating room and no need to waive contingencies. For a seller it means pricing and preparation matter more here than in the close-in neighborhoods.
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