Main Road, Ashbourne house prices are built from 141 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £225,000. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +49.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.1%.
Median price paid
£225,000
Change in cash, 2013–2024
+49.7%
Change in real terms
+8.1%
Median per m²
£3,017
HM Land Registry141 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Main Road, Ashbourne prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Road, Ashbourne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. 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 | 3 | £129,000 | £286,441 |
| 2000s | 3 | £145,000 | £264,147 |
| 2010s | 3 | £302,500 | £426,525 |
| 2020s | 3 | £335,000 | £342,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Road, Ashbourne is £435,000 in 2024; the lowest is £61,625 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £61,625 to £435,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £130,664, so the real change over the whole record is +250.3% — about +4.75% 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: +49.7% in cash against +8.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Smithy | 27 Feb 2026 | Detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| The Manor House | 11 Feb 2026 | Detached | £570,000 | £570,000 |
| Derry Down | 26 Sep 2025 | Detached | £850,000 | £868,478 |
| Eaton House | 10 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £372,000 | £380,087 |
| 1 Eaton Court | 29 Aug 2025 | Detached | £540,000 | £551,739 |
| Weaver View 2 Bentley Fold | 3 Jul 2025 | Detached | £690,000 | £705,000 |
| River View | 27 Sep 2024 | Detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 3 Eaton Court | 19 Sep 2024 | Detached | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| Hayslope Bungalow | 24 May 2024 | Detached | £460,000 | £484,030 |
| 2 Eaton Court | 10 May 2024 | Detached | £730,000 | £768,134 |
| Rose Bank | 15 Mar 2024 | Detached | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| Derry Down | 22 Feb 2024 | Detached | £840,000 | £883,881 |
| The Old Coach House | 4 Oct 2023 | Detached | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| Hawthorn House | 6 Sep 2023 | Detached | £540,000 | £583,448 |
| Wayside | 24 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| Poppin | 26 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £372,759 |
| New Inn | 28 Nov 2022 | Detached | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| Nahillah 3 Bentley Fold | 16 Sep 2022 | Detached | £640,000 | £741,495 |
| Meadow View | 1 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £237,500 | £275,164 |
| Post Cottage | 6 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £147,000 | £185,726 |
| Eaton House | 30 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| Wayside | 9 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £172,500 | £217,944 |
| Rose Cottage | 6 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| The Forge | 16 Mar 2021 | Detached | £545,000 | £688,575 |
| Four Winds | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £410,000 | £530,854 |
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 Main Road, Ashbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLD SMITHY Main Road | £140,000 (1998) | £430,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| THE MANOR HOUSE Main Road | £96,000 (1998) | £570,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| DERRY DOWN Main Road | £543,000 (2006) | £850,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| EATON HOUSE Main Road | £45,000 (1997) | £372,000 (2025) | +7.8% | +5.1% |
| WEAVER VIEW 2 BENTLEY FOLD Main Road | £194,300 (1998) | £690,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| RIVER VIEW Main Road | £58,000 (1997) | £375,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| WAYSIDE Main Road | £62,500 (2001) | £210,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.8% |
| POPPIN Main Road | £92,500 (1999) | £345,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| ROSE COTTAGE Main Road | £360,000 (2018) | £235,000 (2021) | -13.3% | -14.8% |
| THE FORGE Main Road | £369,950 (2009) | £545,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.0% |
| FOUR WINDS Main Road | £315,000 (2007) | £410,000 (2020) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| BLACKWALL SIDE Main Road | £66,000 (1997) | £295,000 (2020) | +6.7% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Road, Ashbourne 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 | 98 | 69.5% | £270,000 | £38,500 – £850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 29 | 20.6% | £208,000 | £45,000 – £372,000 |
| Terraced | 14 | 9.9% | £112,000 | £40,000 – £369,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Road, Ashbourne
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 141 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 141 | 100.0% | £225,000 |
| New build | 9 | 6.4% | £195,000 |
| Existing home | 132 | 93.6% | £235,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -17.0%. 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 18 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 07
Living in Main Road, Ashbourne
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Amber Valley, 40.1% of 61,836 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 754 | 1.2% |
| B | 7,153 | 11.6% |
| C | 16,914 | 27.4% |
| D | 23,702 | 38.3% |
| E | 9,837 | 15.9% |
| F | 2,727 | 4.4% |
| G | 749 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Amber Valley at £793 a month as of Jun 2026 — £579 for a one-bedroom home and £906 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £225,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.23% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DE6, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.
Against the 126,206 residents the 2021 census counted in Amber Valley, that is 0.02 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Main Road, Ashbourne
The 2021 census counted 126,206 residents in Amber Valley across 56,277 households. 72.5% of those households own their home and 27.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
23 state and independent schools have a DE6 postcode: 22 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,276 |
| St Oswald's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 204 |
| Ashbourne Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 202 |
| Brailsford CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 150 |
| Osmaston CofE (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 148 |
| Hilltop Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 126 |
| Clifton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 107 |
| Kirk Langley CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 91 |
| Doveridge Primary School | Primary | Community school | 84 |
| Norbury CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 75 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Idridgehay (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 11.0 km |
| Idridgehay (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway) | Tram | 11.0 km |
| Idridgehay (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 11.0 km |
| Uttoxeter Rail Station | Rail | 14.1 km |
Section 09
How Main Road, Ashbourne compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Road, Ashbourne sits above that national figure — +42.9%.
Within Ashbourne the street ranks 186 of 403 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £205,000 (+9.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,017 per square metre, across 5 of the 141 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 £38,500 to £850,000. 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.
Main Road, Ashbourne sits in Amber Valley, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Amber Valley at 6.5 times median local earnings of £35,912 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Church Lane£277,500 median
- Main Street£235,000 median
- Mayfield Road£126,500 median
- The Green Road£235,000 median
- Premier Avenue£184,450 median
- Greenway£190,000 median
- Lodge Farm Chase£217,000 median
- Park Avenue£158,000 median
- Belper Road£170,500 median
- Park View£121,700 median
- South Street£119,975 median
- Harlow Way£383,995 median
- Thorpe View£314,950 median
- Windmill Lane£275,000 median
- Auction Close£164,975 median
- Belle Vue Road£170,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- EATON HOUSE Main Road6 sales
- RIVER VIEW Main Road4 sales
- WAYSIDE Main Road4 sales
- THE MANOR HOUSE Main Road3 sales
- DERRY DOWN Main Road3 sales
- THE FORGE Main Road3 sales
- FOUR WINDS Main Road3 sales
- BLACKWALL SIDE Main Road3 sales
- THE COACH HOUSE Main Road3 sales
- BENTLEY BARN Main Road3 sales
- OLD SMITHY Main Road2 sales
- WEAVER VIEW, 2 BENTLEY FOLD Main Road2 sales
- POPPIN Main Road2 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE Main Road2 sales
- 2 Main Road2 sales
- THE SMITHY Main Road2 sales
- MEADOW COTTAGE Main Road2 sales
- SANDFORD BROOK HOUSE Main Road2 sales
- TOWN SWELL Main Road2 sales
- IVY COTTAGE Main Road2 sales
- 4 Main Road2 sales
- LEASIDE Main Road2 sales
- HILLSBOROUGH HOUSE Main Road2 sales
- 3 Main Road2 sales
Back to Ashbourne house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Road, Ashbourne?
The median price paid in Main Road, Ashbourne across every sale on the register is £225,000. 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 Main Road, Ashbourne?
141 sales are on record for Main Road, Ashbourne, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Road, Ashbourne house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +49.7% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Road, Ashbourne house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £435,000, set in 2024. 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 Main Road, Ashbourne?
£3,017 per square metre, from the 5 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 27 Feb 2026. 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, “Main Road, Ashbourne 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.