Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple house prices are built from 132 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Apr 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £248,975. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +12.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.8%.
Median price paid
£248,975
Change in cash, 2013–2024
+12.5%
Change in real terms
-18.8%
HM Land Registry132 salesLatest sale 22 Apr 2025
Section 01
How Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | £120,000 | £266,457 |
| 2000s | 5 | £220,000 | £400,775 |
| 2010s | 3 | £324,500 | £457,545 |
| 2020s | 2 | £365,000 | £372,935 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple is £415,000 in 2021; the lowest is £98,000 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £98,000 to £365,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £217,606, so the real change over the whole record is +76.5% — about +1.98% 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: +12.5% in cash against -18.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 22 Apr 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 106 | 7 Mar 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 62 | 20 Nov 2024 | Detached | £395,000 | £415,634 |
| 64 | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 20 | 4 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £247,500 | £260,429 |
| 3 | 26 Jul 2024 | Detached | £605,000 | £636,604 |
| 6 | 28 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 50 | 15 Dec 2022 | Detached | £505,000 | £585,086 |
| 122 | 22 Apr 2022 | Detached | £380,000 | £440,263 |
| 41 | 7 Oct 2021 | Detached | £505,000 | £638,038 |
| 98 | 20 Aug 2021 | Detached | £525,000 | £663,306 |
| 25 | 31 Mar 2021 | Detached | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| 24 | 26 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £224,000 | £283,011 |
| 21 | 1 Feb 2021 | Detached | £365,000 | £461,156 |
| 16 | 21 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £223,000 | £288,733 |
| 6 | 17 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £225,000 | £291,322 |
| 118 | 30 Jan 2020 | Detached | £380,000 | £492,011 |
| 112 | 10 Dec 2019 | Detached | £330,000 | £431,633 |
| 5 | 30 Oct 2019 | Detached | £295,000 | £385,853 |
| 102 | 31 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £497,032 |
| 12 | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £225,000 | £294,295 |
| 24 | 3 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £225,000 | £299,858 |
| 35 | 26 Jul 2018 | Detached | £370,000 | £493,100 |
| 27 | 29 Sep 2017 | Detached | £395,000 | £537,597 |
| 44 | 25 May 2017 | Detached | £330,000 | £449,131 |
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 Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Lower Cross Road | £239,000 (2003) | £550,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 62 Lower Cross Road | £286,000 (2016) | £395,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +0.5% |
| 64 Lower Cross Road | £119,950 (1999) | £365,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 3 Lower Cross Road | £110,000 (1995) | £605,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 6 Lower Cross Road | £147,000 (2003) | £265,000 (2024) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 50 Lower Cross Road | £113,500 (1999) | £505,000 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.1% |
| 122 Lower Cross Road | £129,500 (2000) | £380,000 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.4% |
| 98 Lower Cross Road | £132,000 (2001) | £525,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 25 Lower Cross Road | £129,950 (2000) | £415,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 24 Lower Cross Road | £60,000 (1996) | £224,000 (2021) | +5.4% | +3.2% |
| 118 Lower Cross Road | £160,000 (2000) | £380,000 (2020) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
| 102 Lower Cross Road | £73,500 (1995) | £380,000 (2019) | +7.1% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple 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 | 104 | 78.8% | £272,500 | £76,000 – £605,000 |
| Terraced | 22 | 16.7% | £196,000 | £59,500 – £265,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 4.5% | £182,000 | £73,500 – £380,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 132 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 | 132 | 100.0% | £248,975 |
A further 4 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 Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Devon, 39.9% of 53,724 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 10.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 653 | 1.2% |
| B | 6,333 | 11.8% |
| C | 14,429 | 26.9% |
| D | 17,290 | 32.2% |
| E | 9,523 | 17.7% |
| F | 3,825 | 7.1% |
| G | 1,671 | 3.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Devon at £843 a month as of Jun 2026 — £587 for a one-bedroom home and £961 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £248,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.06% 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 EX31, 209 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 68 violent, 2 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 36 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 98,611 residents the 2021 census counted in North Devon, that is 2.12 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 Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple
The 2021 census counted 98,611 residents in North Devon across 43,198 households. 68.4% of those households own their home and 31.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a EX31 postcode: 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilton Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,165 |
| Sticklepath Community Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 448 |
| Roundswell Community Primary Academy | Primary | Free schools | 345 |
| Fremington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 309 |
| Pilton Bluecoat Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 261 |
| Pilton Infants' Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 172 |
| Horwood and Newton Tracey Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 103 |
| Holywell Church of England School | Primary | Academy converter | 86 |
| Marwood School | Primary | Academy converter | 72 |
| Bratton Fleming Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 70 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Barnstaple Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Chapelton (Devon) Rail Station | Rail | 8.3 km |
| Instow Ferry Landing | Ferry | 8.8 km |
| Appledore Ferry Landing | Ferry | 9.2 km |
Section 09
How Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple sits above that national figure — +58.1%.
Within Barnstaple the street ranks 156 of 717 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £168,000 (+48.2%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £59,500 to £605,000. 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.
Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple sits in North Devon, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Devon at 9.2 times median local earnings of £32,199 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
- Mills Way£175,500 median
- Meadow Brook£194,000 median
- Westaway Heights£153,498 median
- Sampson's Plantation£187,200 median
- Furze Park Road£134,000 median
- Taw Wharf£305,000 median
- Middle Combe Drive£152,950 median
- Taw View£185,000 median
- Lagoon View£189,950 median
- Pilton Street£144,000 median
- Coopers Drive£136,000 median
- Wester Moor Drive£136,950 median
- Redlands Road£220,000 median
- Windsor Road£135,000 median
- Beards Road£172,000 median
- Rolle Street£125,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 24 Lower Cross Road6 sales
- 6 Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 98 Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 25 Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 118 Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 27 Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 44 Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 66A Lower Cross Road4 sales
- 40 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 50 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 102 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 116 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 43 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 26 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- BELMONT HOUSE, 1 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 108 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 18 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 54 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 110 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 52 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 92 Lower Cross Road3 sales
- 62 Lower Cross Road2 sales
- 64 Lower Cross Road2 sales
- 3 Lower Cross Road2 sales
Back to Barnstaple house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple?
The median price paid in Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple across every sale on the register is £248,975. 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 Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple?
132 sales are on record for Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple, the most recent completing on 22 Apr 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +12.5% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £415,000, set in 2021. 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 Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 22 Apr 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, “Lower Cross Road, Barnstaple 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.