Lake Road, Ambleside house prices are built from 139 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 5 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £215,000. Across the 11 years from 2010 to 2021 the median moved +104.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +61.9%.
Median price paid
£215,000
Change in cash, 2010–2021
+104.7%
Change in real terms
+61.9%
Median per m²
£2,955
HM Land Registry139 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Lake Road, Ambleside prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lake Road, Ambleside house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £41,000 | £91,039 |
| 2000s | 6 | £145,000 | £264,147 |
| 2010s | 4 | £215,000 | £303,150 |
| 2020s | 1 | £440,000 | £449,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lake Road, Ambleside is £440,000 in 2021; the lowest is £41,000 in 1998. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £41,000 to £440,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £85,015, so the real change over the whole record is +553.9% — about +8.51% 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: +104.7% in cash against +61.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 the Brandrith | 5 Nov 2025 | Detached | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| 3 the Brandrith | 22 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 41 | 25 Jul 2024 | Detached | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| 2 the Brandrith | 15 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 4 Studio House | 31 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £378,700 | £409,170 |
| 1 Studio House | 24 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| 7 Wansfell Tower Court | 22 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £401,500 | £465,173 |
| Unit C 101 | 1 Aug 2022 | Detached | £520,000 | £602,465 |
| Clover Cottage | 17 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £300,500 | £348,155 |
| 2 Coach House | 5 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| Waterhead Range Cottage | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £525,000 | £663,306 |
| Loughrigg Hide | 31 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 2 Waterhead Range | 24 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 7 the Brandrith | 10 Feb 2021 | Detached | £555,000 | £701,210 |
| Flat 4 | 18 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £355,000 | £448,522 |
| Thistle Villa | 15 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £550,000 | £694,892 |
| 2 Wansfell Tower Court | 2 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £336,639 |
| 1 Rolton Cottages | 25 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £259,500 | £339,420 |
| 1 Studio House | 4 Oct 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £186,690 | £244,186 |
| North Cottage | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £310,000 | £405,473 |
| 1 the Brandrith | 25 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £359,694 |
| Elder Grove | 8 Aug 2018 | Detached | £690,000 | £919,565 |
| Rolton | 27 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £435,000 | £579,726 |
| 5 the Brandrith | 26 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £330,000 | £439,792 |
| 6 Wansfell Tower Court | 26 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £266,541 |
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 Lake Road, Ambleside values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 the BRANDRITH Lake Road | £545,000 (2015) | £700,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.7% |
| 3 the BRANDRITH Lake Road | £275,000 (2007) | £375,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 2 the BRANDRITH Lake Road | £285,000 (2008) | £370,000 (2024) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 4 STUDIO HOUSE Lake Road | £57,500 (1995) | £378,700 (2023) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 1 STUDIO HOUSE Lake Road | £89,000 (2003) | £265,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
| 7 WANSFELL TOWER COURT Lake Road | £160,000 (2009) | £401,500 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| 2 COACH HOUSE Lake Road | £40,000 (1998) | £325,000 (2022) | +9.1% | +6.5% |
| LOUGHRIGG HIDE Lake Road | £190,000 (2013) | £240,000 (2021) | +3.0% | +1.1% |
| 2 WATERHEAD RANGE Lake Road | £76,000 (1997) | £300,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| 7 the BRANDRITH Lake Road | £450,000 (2015) | £555,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 4 Lake Road | £135,000 (2003) | £355,000 (2021) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| 2 WANSFELL TOWER COURT Lake Road | £187,201 (2013) | £260,000 (2020) | +4.8% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lake Road, Ambleside 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 | 57 | 41.0% | £172,710 | £36,000 – £403,500 |
| Terraced | 32 | 23.0% | £240,000 | £30,000 – £550,000 |
| Detached | 31 | 22.3% | £293,500 | £45,000 – £700,000 |
| Semi-detached | 19 | 13.7% | £280,000 | £66,500 – £552,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lake Road, Ambleside
65 of the sales on record are leasehold and 74 freehold — 46.8% 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 £172,710 and the median freehold sale £287,500 — a gap of +66.5%. 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 | 65 | 46.8% | £172,710 |
| Freehold | 74 | 53.2% | £287,500 |
| New build | 8 | 5.8% | £260,000 |
| Existing home | 131 | 94.2% | £215,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +20.9%. 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.
A further 28 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 09
How Lake Road, Ambleside compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lake Road, Ambleside sits above that national figure — +36.5%.
Within Ambleside the street ranks 77 of 115 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £249,500 (-13.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,955 per square metre, across 37 of the 139 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 £30,000 to £700,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Millans Court£117,500 median
- Millans Park£255,000 median
- Old Lake Road£260,000 median
- The Falls£235,000 median
- Fisherbeck Park£285,000 median
- Kirkfield£157,500 median
- Compston Road£207,000 median
- Neaum Crag£90,000 median
- Kirkstone Road£248,498 median
- Rydal Road£330,000 median
- Ellerigg Road£311,500 median
- Borrans Road£280,000 median
- Lower Gale£243,750 median
- Compston Street£244,000 median
- Main Street£222,475 median
- Gale Rigg£247,975 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2, STUDIO HOUSE Lake Road6 sales
- 1, STUDIO HOUSE Lake Road5 sales
- 2, COACH HOUSE Lake Road5 sales
- 3, the BRANDRITH Lake Road4 sales
- 7, WANSFELL TOWER COURT Lake Road4 sales
- FLAT, 4 Lake Road4 sales
- 9, WANSFELL TOWER COURT Lake Road4 sales
- 1, the COACH HOUSE Lake Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, LANCASTER HOUSE Lake Road4 sales
- 4, STUDIO HOUSE Lake Road3 sales
- NORTH COTTAGE Lake Road3 sales
- 6, WANSFELL TOWER COURT Lake Road3 sales
- 48 Lake Road3 sales
- WINDOWS Lake Road3 sales
- BECK GROVE COTTAGE Lake Road3 sales
- 3, STUDIO HOUSE Lake Road3 sales
- 8, the BRANDRITH Lake Road2 sales
- 2, the BRANDRITH Lake Road2 sales
- LOUGHRIGG HIDE Lake Road2 sales
- 2, WATERHEAD RANGE Lake Road2 sales
- 7, the BRANDRITH Lake Road2 sales
- 2, WANSFELL TOWER COURT Lake Road2 sales
- 1, ROLTON COTTAGES Lake Road2 sales
- 1, the BRANDRITH Lake Road2 sales
Back to Ambleside house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lake Road, Ambleside?
The median price paid in Lake Road, Ambleside across every sale on the register is £215,000. 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 Lake Road, Ambleside?
139 sales are on record for Lake Road, Ambleside, the most recent completing on 5 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lake Road, Ambleside house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +104.7% between 2010 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +61.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lake Road, Ambleside house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £440,000, 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 Lake Road, Ambleside?
£2,955 per square metre, from the 37 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 5 Nov 2025. 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, “Lake Road, Ambleside 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.