Rydal Road, Ambleside house prices are built from 47 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2016 and the most recent on 30 Jul 2021. The median price paid across the whole record is £330,000.
Median price paid
£330,000
Median per m²
£2,062
HM Land Registry47 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jul 2021
Section 01
How Rydal Road, Ambleside prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Rydal Road, Ambleside to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield | 30 Jul 2021 | Detached | £2,340,000 | £2,956,452 |
| South Knoll | 18 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £590,000 | £763,912 |
| Field Garth | 14 Aug 2020 | Detached | £579,000 | £749,669 |
| 5 Lesketh How | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £765,000 | £1,000,603 |
| 2 Lesketh How | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £750,000 | £980,983 |
| 1 Lesketh How | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £735,000 | £961,364 |
| 6 Lesketh How | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £625,000 | £817,486 |
| 3 Lesketh How | 29 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £588,590 |
| The Coach House | 8 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £450,000 | £599,716 |
| Fern Cottage | 28 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £270,000 | £367,471 |
| Long Crag | 20 Jan 2017 | Detached | £500,000 | £680,502 |
| Flat 7 Old Wesleyan Chapel | 19 Oct 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £174,505 |
| Fern Cottage | 3 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £130,000 | £181,485 |
| Flat 8 Old Wesleyan Chapel | 1 Jul 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £188,465 |
| Flat 5 Old Wesleyan Chapel | 31 Mar 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £124,999 | £174,504 |
| Flat 1 Old Wesleyan Chapel | 5 Feb 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £153,564 |
| Flat 3 Old Wesleyan Chapel | 5 Feb 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £125,644 |
| Far Nook | 25 Jun 2015 | Detached | £695,000 | £979,950 |
| Oakbank | 9 Dec 2014 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £523,550 |
| Flat 1 Compston Corner | 11 Sep 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £251,017 |
| Springfield | 16 Dec 2013 | Detached | £499,352 | £728,114 |
| Knoll Cottage | 30 Mar 2012 | Detached | £465,000 | £694,544 |
| The Old Coach House | 27 Apr 2011 | Detached | £408,000 | £625,304 |
| The Cottage Overbeck | 29 Oct 2010 | Semi-detached | £272,000 | £434,337 |
| End Cottage | 22 Oct 2010 | Terraced | £240,000 | £383,239 |
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 Rydal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPRINGFIELD Rydal Road | £499,352 (2013) | £2,340,000 (2021) | +21.3% | +19.1% |
| FERN COTTAGE Rydal Road | £130,000 (2016) | £270,000 (2017) | +107.7% | +102.5% |
| LONG CRAG Rydal Road | £175,000 (1998) | £500,000 (2017) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| FAR NOOK Rydal Road | £160,000 (1999) | £695,000 (2015) | +9.6% | +7.1% |
| FLAT 1 COMPSTON CORNER Rydal Road | £151,000 (2008) | £175,000 (2014) | +2.5% | -0.2% |
| END COTTAGE Rydal Road | £180,000 (2007) | £240,000 (2010) | +10.1% | +7.0% |
| FLAT 2 COMPSTON CORNER Rydal Road | £160,000 (2006) | £170,000 (2010) | +1.5% | -1.2% |
| ANCHORAGE GUEST HOUSE Rydal Road | £300,000 (2002) | £330,000 (2003) | +10.0% | +7.8% |
| MILL COTTAGE COUNTRY RESTAURANT & GUEST HOUSE Rydal Road | £237,500 (1999) | £380,000 (2003) | +12.5% | +10.4% |
| SCANDALE BROW Rydal Road | £225,000 (1996) | £410,000 (2001) | +12.8% | +10.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rydal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 19 | 40.4% | £445,000 | £160,000 – £2,340,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 11 | 23.4% | £151,000 | £90,000 – £450,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 23.4% | £447,500 | £130,000 – £765,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 12.8% | £272,500 | £152,000 – £590,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rydal Road, Ambleside
11 of the sales on record are leasehold and 36 freehold — 23.4% 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 £151,000 and the median freehold sale £427,500 — a gap of +183.1%. 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 | 11 | 23.4% | £151,000 |
| Freehold | 36 | 76.6% | £427,500 |
| New build | 11 | 23.4% | £160,000 |
| Existing home | 36 | 76.6% | £347,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -54.0%. 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 20 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 Rydal Road, Ambleside compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rydal Road, Ambleside sits above that national figure — +109.5%.
Within Ambleside the street ranks 20 of 115 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £249,500 (+32.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,062 per square metre, across 1 of the 47 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 £90,000 to £2,340,000. 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
- Lake Road£215,000 median
- 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
- 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
- FAR NOOK Rydal Road5 sales
- FLAT 2, COMPSTON CORNER Rydal Road3 sales
- SPRINGFIELD Rydal Road2 sales
- FERN COTTAGE Rydal Road2 sales
- LONG CRAG Rydal Road2 sales
- FLAT 1, COMPSTON CORNER Rydal Road2 sales
- END COTTAGE Rydal Road2 sales
- ANCHORAGE GUEST HOUSE Rydal Road2 sales
- MILL COTTAGE COUNTRY RESTAURANT & GUEST HOUSE Rydal Road2 sales
- SCANDALE BROW Rydal Road2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rydal Road, Ambleside?
The median price paid in Rydal Road, Ambleside across every sale on the register is £330,000. 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 Rydal Road, Ambleside?
47 sales are on record for Rydal Road, Ambleside, the most recent completing on 30 Jul 2021. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Rydal Road, Ambleside house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £735,000, set in 2019. 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 Rydal Road, Ambleside?
£2,062 per square metre, from the 1 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 30 Jul 2021. 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, “Rydal 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.