Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick house prices

Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick house prices are built from 85 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 26 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £119,950.

HM Land Registry85 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Feb 2026

The chart tracks the median Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2001. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick is £116,950 in 2000; the lowest is £78,803 in 1997. Across the full 5-year record the cash median has moved from £78,803 to £116,450.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £167,086, so the real change over the whole record is +36.7% — about +8.12% 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.

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.

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 Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

32 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53 freehold — 37.6% 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 £112,500 and the median freehold sale £122,000 — a gap of +8.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.1%. 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 2 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.

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.

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 £119,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.38% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick sits below that national figure — -23.8%.

Within Barnoldswick the street ranks 119 of 317 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £91,975 (+30.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,654 per square metre, across 19 of the 85 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 £55,000 to £330,000. 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.

Whitworth Way, 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.

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
• Cobden Street£71,500 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 37 Whitworth Way5 sales
• 9 Whitworth Way5 sales
• 25 Whitworth Way4 sales
• 15 Whitworth Way4 sales
• 5 Whitworth Way4 sales
• 19 Whitworth Way4 sales
• 35 Whitworth Way3 sales
• 46 Whitworth Way3 sales
• 31 Whitworth Way3 sales
• 34 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 56 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 26 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 38 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 23 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 14 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 52 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 48 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 36 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 11 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 6 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 21 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 50 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 44 Whitworth Way2 sales
• 17 Whitworth Way2 sales

Back to Barnoldswick house prices.

What is the average house price in Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick?

The median price paid in Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick across every sale on the register is £119,950. 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 Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick?

85 sales are on record for Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick, the most recent completing on 26 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £116,950, set in 2000. 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 Whitworth Way, Barnoldswick?

£1,654 per square metre, from the 19 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 26 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, “Whitworth Way, 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.