Dark Lane, Batley house prices are built from 81 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 21 Oct 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £62,000. Across the 11 years from 2003 to 2014 the median moved +125.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +71.0%.
Median price paid
£62,000
Change in cash, 2003–2014
+125.3%
Change in real terms
+71.0%
Median per m²
£733
HM Land Registry81 sales6 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Oct 2024
Section 01
How Dark Lane, Batley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dark Lane, Batley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2014. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £50,000 | £91,085 |
| 2010s | 1 | £102,500 | £144,525 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dark Lane, Batley is £102,500 in 2014; the lowest is £45,500 in 2003. Across the full 14-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £102,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £98,053, so the real change over the whole record is +49.9% — about +3.17% 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: +125.3% in cash against +71.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 21 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £90,000 | £94,701 |
| 67 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 103 | 2 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 65 | 10 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £78,000 | £84,276 |
| 86 | 3 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £167,000 | £193,484 |
| 76 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £60,000 | £69,515 |
| 31 | 24 Jun 2022 | Detached | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 99 | 8 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £182,000 | £235,647 |
| 82 | 7 May 2020 | Terraced | £65,000 | £84,160 |
| 108 | 18 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £170,037 |
| 67 | 20 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 9 | 21 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £58,000 | £78,938 |
| 55b | 5 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £141,000 | £191,902 |
| 51b | 20 Jan 2017 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £224,566 |
| 70 | 19 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £100,000 | £139,604 |
| 16 | 24 Nov 2014 | Terraced | £50,000 | £71,719 |
| 48 | 15 Aug 2014 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £207,986 |
| 75 | 18 Jul 2014 | Detached | £130,000 | £186,470 |
| 29 | 13 Jun 2014 | Terraced | £49,000 | £70,285 |
| 23a | 17 Apr 2014 | Terraced | £75,000 | £107,579 |
| 65 | 31 Jan 2014 | Terraced | £130,000 | £186,470 |
| 19 | 25 Jan 2013 | Terraced | £105,000 | £153,102 |
| 64 | 24 Jul 2012 | Terraced | £100,000 | £149,364 |
| 68 | 19 Apr 2012 | Terraced | £80,000 | £119,492 |
| 103 | 18 Apr 2011 | Terraced | £149,950 | £229,815 |
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 Dark Lane, Batley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Dark Lane | £90,000 (2010) | £90,000 (2024) | 0.0% | -2.9% |
| 67 Dark Lane | £127,000 (2005) | £225,000 (2024) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 103 Dark Lane | £52,000 (2001) | £215,000 (2023) | +6.7% | +3.8% |
| 65 Dark Lane | £70,000 (2002) | £78,000 (2023) | +0.5% | -2.2% |
| 86 Dark Lane | £69,000 (2002) | £167,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
| 99 Dark Lane | £72,000 (2003) | £182,000 (2020) | +5.6% | +3.3% |
| 82 Dark Lane | £38,000 (2002) | £65,000 (2020) | +3.0% | +0.8% |
| 55B Dark Lane | £70,000 (2004) | £141,000 (2017) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| 16 Dark Lane | £18,000 (2003) | £50,000 (2014) | +9.7% | +7.0% |
| 29 Dark Lane | £17,000 (2001) | £49,000 (2014) | +8.5% | +5.9% |
| 23A Dark Lane | £55,000 (2003) | £75,000 (2014) | +2.9% | +0.3% |
| 21 Dark Lane | £22,000 (2000) | £60,000 (2008) | +13.4% | +10.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dark Lane, Batley 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 | 54 | 66.7% | £58,000 | £15,000 – £225,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 25.9% | £70,000 | £17,000 – £182,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 7.4% | £75,000 | £45,000 – £205,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dark Lane, Batley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 81 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 | 81 | 100.0% | £62,000 |
A further 13 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 Dark Lane, Batley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Kirklees, 38.7% of 198,495 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 861 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,279 | 7.7% |
| C | 60,657 | 30.6% |
| D | 82,930 | 41.8% |
| E | 30,047 | 15.1% |
| F | 6,444 | 3.2% |
| G | 2,277 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Kirklees at £780 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £864 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £62,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.10% 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 WF17, 314 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 127 violent, 17 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 433,216 residents the 2021 census counted in Kirklees, that is 0.72 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 Dark Lane, Batley
The 2021 census counted 433,216 residents in Kirklees across 177,989 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a WF17 postcode: 19 primary, 2 secondary, 1 all-through. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batley Girls' High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,415 |
| Batley Grammar School | All-through | Free schools | 980 |
| Upper Batley High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 784 |
| Windmill CofE (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 415 |
| Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 402 |
| Warwick Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 362 |
| Carlinghow Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 304 |
| Lydgate Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 297 |
| Staincliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 274 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 258 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Batley Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Dewsbury Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Morley Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Ravensthorpe Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
Section 09
How Dark Lane, Batley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dark Lane, Batley sits below that national figure — -60.6%.
Within Batley the street ranks 407 of 507 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,000 (-32.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £733 per square metre, across 6 of the 81 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 £15,000 to £225,000. 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.
Dark Lane, Batley sits in Kirklees, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Kirklees at 6.3 times median local earnings of £33,613 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
- Bradford Road£75,000 median
- Commonside£66,000 median
- Soothill Lane£87,725 median
- Carlinghow Lane£78,000 median
- High Street£93,000 median
- Healey Lane£78,000 median
- White Lee Road£135,000 median
- Millers Croft£125,000 median
- Lansdowne Close£58,950 median
- Grange Road£75,000 median
- Leeds Road£96,000 median
- Upper Batley Lane£147,500 median
- Kirkgate£100,000 median
- Phoenix Court£98,250 median
- Raikes Lane£125,500 median
- Brow Wood Road£175,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 65 Dark Lane4 sales
- 67 Dark Lane3 sales
- 103 Dark Lane3 sales
- 55B Dark Lane3 sales
- 21 Dark Lane3 sales
- 11 Dark Lane3 sales
- 27 Dark Lane2 sales
- 86 Dark Lane2 sales
- 99 Dark Lane2 sales
- 82 Dark Lane2 sales
- 16 Dark Lane2 sales
- 29 Dark Lane2 sales
- 23A Dark Lane2 sales
- 87 Dark Lane2 sales
- 118 Dark Lane2 sales
- 116 Dark Lane2 sales
- 95 Dark Lane2 sales
- 122 Dark Lane2 sales
Back to Batley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dark Lane, Batley?
The median price paid in Dark Lane, Batley across every sale on the register is £62,000. 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 Dark Lane, Batley?
81 sales are on record for Dark Lane, Batley, the most recent completing on 21 Oct 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dark Lane, Batley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +125.3% between 2003 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +71.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dark Lane, Batley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £102,500, set in 2014. 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 Dark Lane, Batley?
£733 per square metre, from the 6 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 21 Oct 2024. 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, “Dark Lane, Batley 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.