Cobden Street, Barnoldswick house prices are built from 116 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 7 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £71,500. Across the 16 years from 2006 to 2022 the median moved +36.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -11.0%.
Median price paid
£71,500
Change in cash, 2006–2022
+36.8%
Change in real terms
-11.0%
Median per m²
£860
HM Land Registry116 sales29 with floor areaLatest sale 7 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Cobden Street, Barnoldswick prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cobden Street, Barnoldswick house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | 2 | £28,500 | £63,283 |
| 2000s | 5 | £71,475 | £130,206 |
| 2010s | 1 | £82,225 | £115,937 |
| 2020s | 2 | £110,000 | £112,391 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cobden Street, Barnoldswick is £116,250 in 2022; the lowest is £28,500 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £30,000 to £116,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £66,614, so the real change over the whole record is +102.2% — about +2.64% 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: +36.8% in cash against -11.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 7 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 41 | 7 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £114,000 | £116,478 |
| 28 | 23 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 33 | 7 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £53,500 | £56,295 |
| 6 | 15 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £125,000 | £135,057 |
| 47 | 21 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £129,950 | £140,406 |
| 25 | 16 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| 22 | 14 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £117,500 | £136,134 |
| 15 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £99,950 | £115,801 |
| 38 | 23 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £128,950 | £149,400 |
| 14 | 6 May 2022 | Terraced | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 13 | 11 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £97,500 | £112,962 |
| 35 | 17 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 25 | 10 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| 47 | 27 May 2021 | Terraced | £115,150 | £145,485 |
| 53 | 9 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £92,500 | £116,868 |
| 18 | 6 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £114,500 | £144,664 |
| 54 | 13 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £60,000 | £78,479 |
| 6 | 24 May 2019 | Terraced | £90,000 | £117,718 |
| 15 | 20 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £82,950 | £108,497 |
| 39 | 22 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £84,950 | £113,213 |
| 56 | 1 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £70,000 | £93,289 |
| 35 | 27 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £76,200 | £103,708 |
| 25 | 19 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £82,000 | £111,602 |
| 47 | 2 May 2017 | Terraced | £80,000 | £108,880 |
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 Cobden Street, Barnoldswick values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 Cobden Street | £24,750 (1995) | £130,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 41 Cobden Street | £23,000 (2001) | £114,000 (2025) | +6.9% | +4.0% |
| 28 Cobden Street | £55,000 (2012) | £120,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.1% |
| 6 Cobden Street | £32,950 (1997) | £125,000 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 47 Cobden Street | £33,500 (1996) | £129,950 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.5% |
| 25 Cobden Street | £25,000 (1998) | £135,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.7% |
| 22 Cobden Street | £34,000 (1995) | £117,500 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 15 Cobden Street | £90,000 (2006) | £99,950 (2022) | +0.7% | -2.0% |
| 38 Cobden Street | £47,000 (2003) | £128,950 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 14 Cobden Street | £21,000 (2002) | £115,000 (2022) | +8.9% | +6.1% |
| 13 Cobden Street | £30,000 (2002) | £97,500 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 35 Cobden Street | £76,200 (2017) | £90,000 (2021) | +4.2% | +2.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cobden Street, Barnoldswick 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 | 113 | 97.4% | £72,000 | £14,000 – £135,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 1.7% | £41,950 | £41,950 – £77,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.9% | £37,000 | £37,000 – £37,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cobden Street, Barnoldswick
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 116 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 | 116 | 100.0% | £71,500 |
A further 3 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 Cobden Street, Barnoldswick
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Yorkshire, 38.1% of 324,488 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 8.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 2,546 | 0.8% |
| B | 37,477 | 11.5% |
| C | 83,448 | 25.7% |
| D | 117,825 | 36.3% |
| E | 55,738 | 17.2% |
| F | 20,519 | 6.3% |
| G | 6,935 | 2.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Yorkshire at £838 a month as of Jun 2026 — £586 for a one-bedroom home and £929 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £71,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.06% 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 BB18, 38 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 15 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.4 times quieter.
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 Cobden Street, Barnoldswick
8 state and independent schools have a BB18 postcode: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Craven High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 528 |
| Barnoldswick Church of England Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 342 |
| Gisburn Road Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 204 |
| Coates Lane Primary School | Primary | Community school | 157 |
| Earby Springfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 126 |
| St Joseph's Catholic primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 119 |
| Salterforth Primary School | Primary | Community school | 102 |
| Kelbrook Primary School | Primary | Community school | 96 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Colne Rail Station | Rail | 6.7 km |
| Gargrave Rail Station | Rail | 8.3 km |
| Nelson Rail Station | Rail | 9.3 km |
| Cononley Rail Station | Rail | 10.5 km |
Section 09
How Cobden Street, Barnoldswick compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cobden Street, Barnoldswick sits below that national figure — -54.6%.
Within Barnoldswick the street ranks 244 of 317 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £91,975 (-22.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £860 per square metre, across 29 of the 116 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 £14,000 to £135,000. 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.
Cobden Street, Barnoldswick sits in North Yorkshire, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Yorkshire at 7.9 times median local earnings of £34,785 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
- Colne Road£100,000 median
- Gisburn Road£117,000 median
- Manchester Road£125,000 median
- Park Road£88,000 median
- Skipton Road£112,500 median
- York Street£82,950 median
- Rainhall Road£67,500 median
- Lower East Avenue£69,500 median
- Harrison Street£88,000 median
- Green End Avenue£60,500 median
- Rosemount Avenue£86,000 median
- Colin Street£75,000 median
- Arthur Street£80,000 median
- Aspen Grove£192,995 median
- Longroyd Road£89,975 median
- Victoria Road£59,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 6 Cobden Street6 sales
- 25 Cobden Street5 sales
- 47 Cobden Street4 sales
- 22 Cobden Street4 sales
- 15 Cobden Street4 sales
- 38 Cobden Street4 sales
- 53 Cobden Street4 sales
- 39 Cobden Street4 sales
- 49 Cobden Street4 sales
- 20 Cobden Street4 sales
- 1 Cobden Street4 sales
- 31 Cobden Street4 sales
- 41 Cobden Street3 sales
- 54 Cobden Street3 sales
- 28 Cobden Street3 sales
- 14 Cobden Street3 sales
- 13 Cobden Street3 sales
- 58 Cobden Street3 sales
- 55 Cobden Street3 sales
- 27 Cobden Street3 sales
- 26 Cobden Street3 sales
- 35 Cobden Street2 sales
- 18 Cobden Street2 sales
- 43 Cobden Street2 sales
Back to Barnoldswick house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cobden Street, Barnoldswick?
The median price paid in Cobden Street, Barnoldswick across every sale on the register is £71,500. 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 Cobden Street, Barnoldswick?
116 sales are on record for Cobden Street, Barnoldswick, the most recent completing on 7 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cobden Street, Barnoldswick house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.8% between 2006 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -11.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cobden Street, Barnoldswick house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £116,250, set in 2022. 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 Cobden Street, Barnoldswick?
£860 per square metre, from the 29 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 7 Jul 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, “Cobden Street, Barnoldswick 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.