Rochester Road, Batley house prices are built from 84 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 6 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £67,250. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +47.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.8%.
Median price paid
£67,250
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+47.7%
Change in real terms
+21.8%
HM Land Registry84 salesLatest sale 6 May 2026
Section 01
How Rochester Road, Batley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rochester Road, Batley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £26,000 | £57,732 |
| 2010s | 5 | £91,000 | £128,310 |
| 2020s | 1 | £147,000 | £150,196 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rochester Road, Batley is £147,000 in 2021; the lowest is £26,000 in 1999. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £26,000 to £147,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £52,977, so the real change over the whole record is +250.6% — about +5.87% 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: +47.7% in cash against +21.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 6 May 2026 | Terraced | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 83 | 27 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 132 | 4 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £84,179 |
| 26 | 7 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 59 | 17 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 130 | 17 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £75,632 |
| 128 | 4 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £67,000 | £77,625 |
| 4a | 20 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £175,500 | £203,332 |
| 120 | 13 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £69,950 | £81,043 |
| 2a | 30 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £153,000 | £193,306 |
| 73 | 21 May 2021 | Terraced | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| 2 | 23 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £147,000 | £185,726 |
| 11 | 12 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 26 | 5 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £106,000 | £133,925 |
| 9 | 25 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £140,000 | £181,267 |
| 90 | 2 Apr 2020 | Terraced | £56,250 | £72,831 |
| 126 | 17 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £52,000 | £67,328 |
| 132 | 8 Oct 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £38,000 | £49,703 |
| 14 | 27 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £102,000 | £133,414 |
| 23 | 29 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £60,000 | £78,479 |
| 83 | 28 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £106,000 | £138,646 |
| 61 | 25 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £91,000 | £119,026 |
| 15 | 17 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £128,000 | £170,586 |
| 108 | 22 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £79,962 |
| 86 | 21 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £52,500 | £73,292 |
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 Rochester Road, Batley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 Rochester Road | £135,000 (2021) | £170,000 (2026) | +4.7% | -0.1% |
| 83 Rochester Road | £106,000 (2019) | £150,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +1.7% |
| 132 Rochester Road | £38,000 (2019) | £80,000 (2024) | +16.1% | +11.1% |
| 26 Rochester Road | £106,000 (2021) | £170,000 (2023) | +26.6% | +17.1% |
| 59 Rochester Road | £51,000 (2006) | £170,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.2% |
| 128 Rochester Road | £25,000 (2001) | £67,000 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.2% |
| 2A Rochester Road | £102,995 (2011) | £153,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +2.0% |
| 2 Rochester Road | £102,995 (2011) | £147,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.6% |
| 11 Rochester Road | £103,000 (2012) | £150,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.3% |
| 9 Rochester Road | £110,995 (2012) | £140,000 (2020) | +2.9% | +1.1% |
| 126 Rochester Road | £22,550 (1999) | £52,000 (2020) | +4.1% | +1.8% |
| 23 Rochester Road | £51,000 (2016) | £60,000 (2019) | +5.6% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rochester Road, 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 | 31 | 36.9% | £90,000 | £25,265 – £170,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 27 | 32.1% | £54,000 | £23,000 – £85,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 31.0% | £95,995 | £21,500 – £175,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rochester Road, Batley
42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 42 freehold — 50.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £51,500 and the median freehold sale £102,995 — a gap of +100.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 42 | 50.0% | £51,500 |
| Freehold | 42 | 50.0% | £102,995 |
| New build | 10 | 11.9% | £102,998 |
| Existing home | 74 | 88.1% | £61,750 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +66.8%. 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 1 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 Rochester Road, 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 £67,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.92% 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 Rochester Road, 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 Rochester Road, Batley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rochester Road, Batley sits below that national figure — -57.3%.
Within Batley the street ranks 376 of 507 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,000 (-26.9%).
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 £21,500 to £175,500. 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.
Rochester Road, 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
- 128 Rochester Road4 sales
- 100 Rochester Road4 sales
- 102A Rochester Road4 sales
- 122 Rochester Road4 sales
- 2 Rochester Road3 sales
- 9 Rochester Road3 sales
- 126 Rochester Road3 sales
- 106 Rochester Road3 sales
- 124 Rochester Road3 sales
- 73 Rochester Road2 sales
- 83 Rochester Road2 sales
- 132 Rochester Road2 sales
- 26 Rochester Road2 sales
- 59 Rochester Road2 sales
- 2A Rochester Road2 sales
- 11 Rochester Road2 sales
- 23 Rochester Road2 sales
- 61 Rochester Road2 sales
- 15 Rochester Road2 sales
- 108 Rochester Road2 sales
- 43 Rochester Road2 sales
- 43A Rochester Road2 sales
- 77 Rochester Road2 sales
- 28 Rochester Road2 sales
Back to Batley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rochester Road, Batley?
The median price paid in Rochester Road, Batley across every sale on the register is £67,250. 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 Rochester Road, Batley?
84 sales are on record for Rochester Road, Batley, the most recent completing on 6 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rochester Road, Batley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +47.7% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rochester Road, Batley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £147,000, 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 Rochester Road, Batley?
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 6 May 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, “Rochester Road, 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.