Smithy Brow, Ambleside house prices are built from 14 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2015 and the most recent on 1 Jul 2015. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,750.
Median price paid
£165,750
Median per m²
£2,424
HM Land Registry14 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Jul 2015
Section 01
How Smithy Brow, Ambleside prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Smithy Brow, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loughrigg View | 1 Jul 2015 | Terraced | £271,000 | £382,110 |
| Loughrigg House | 27 Jun 2014 | Terraced | £590,000 | £846,287 |
| 4 | 13 Aug 2010 | Terraced | £265,500 | £423,958 |
| Springwell Cottage | 12 Jul 2010 | Terraced | £317,500 | £506,993 |
| 3 | 5 Jun 2009 | Terraced | £225,500 | £370,577 |
| 2 | 18 Jul 2008 | Flat or maisonette | £129,000 | £216,536 |
| Kirkstone Foot Cottage | 23 Jun 2008 | Terraced | £202,500 | £339,911 |
| 2 | 26 Jul 2005 | Flat or maisonette | £98,500 | £179,438 |
| The Old House | 28 Oct 2003 | Terraced | £400,000 | £756,032 |
| 2 | 9 Aug 2002 | Flat or maisonette | £48,000 | £92,585 |
| 2 | 15 Sep 2000 | Flat or maisonette | £55,000 | £110,000 |
| 2 | 28 Jul 2000 | Terraced | £78,500 | £157,000 |
| 2 | 30 Apr 1997 | Terraced | £54,000 | £114,496 |
| 3 | 31 Oct 1996 | Terraced | £75,000 | £162,692 |
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 Smithy Brow, Ambleside values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Smithy Brow | £75,000 (1996) | £225,500 (2009) | +8.8% | +6.5% |
| 2 Smithy Brow | £54,000 (1997) | £129,000 (2008) | +8.2% | +6.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Smithy Brow, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 10 | 71.4% | £225,500 | £54,000 – £590,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 28.6% | £55,000 | £48,000 – £129,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Smithy Brow, Ambleside
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10 freehold — 28.6% 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 £76,750 and the median freehold sale £245,500 — a gap of +219.9%. 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 | 4 | 28.6% | £76,750 |
| Freehold | 10 | 71.4% | £245,500 |
Section 09
How Smithy Brow, Ambleside compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Smithy Brow, Ambleside sits above that national figure — +5.2%.
Within Ambleside the street ranks 100 of 115 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £249,500 (-33.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,424 per square metre, across 1 of the 14 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 £48,000 to £590,000. 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
- 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2 Smithy Brow6 sales
- 3 Smithy Brow2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Smithy Brow, Ambleside?
The median price paid in Smithy Brow, Ambleside across every sale on the register is £165,750. 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 Smithy Brow, Ambleside?
14 sales are on record for Smithy Brow, Ambleside, the most recent completing on 1 Jul 2015. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
What is the price per square metre in Smithy Brow, Ambleside?
£2,424 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 1 Jul 2015. 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, “Smithy Brow, 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.