Petworth Road, Billingshurst house prices are built from 106 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Feb 2023. The median price paid across the whole record is £240,750. Across the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 the median moved +2.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -19.8%.
Median price paid
£240,750
Change in cash, 2006–2016
+2.3%
Change in real terms
-19.8%
Median per m²
£1,841
HM Land Registry106 sales4 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Feb 2023
Section 01
How Petworth Road, Billingshurst prices moved
The chart tracks the median Petworth Road, Billingshurst house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2016. 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 | 4 | £122,500 | £272,008 |
| 2000s | 5 | £239,500 | £436,298 |
| 2010s | 1 | £450,000 | £634,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Petworth Road, Billingshurst is £450,000 in 2016; the lowest is £62,000 in 1998. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £122,500 to £450,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £272,008, so the real change over the whole record is +131.0% — about +4.07% 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: +2.3% in cash against -19.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Leaf Barn | 17 Feb 2023 | Detached | £345,000 | £372,759 |
| Caravela | 21 Oct 2022 | Detached | £620,000 | £718,324 |
| Greenbridge Cottage | 16 Jun 2022 | Detached | £892,500 | £1,034,039 |
| 5 Bakehouse Cottages | 21 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £318,000 | £368,431 |
| Old Farm Bungalow | 2 Mar 2022 | Detached | £875,000 | £1,013,763 |
| 1 Crossways Cottage | 25 Oct 2021 | Detached | £725,000 | £915,995 |
| 2 Chapel Cottage | 25 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £480,000 | £606,452 |
| Meadow View | 4 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £448,522 |
| Bridge House | 16 Feb 2021 | Detached | £780,000 | £985,484 |
| Foxley | 16 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £459,642 |
| 6 Bakehouse Cottages | 3 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £284,848 |
| Oakfield House | 25 Sep 2018 | Detached | £1,000,000 | £1,332,703 |
| 3 Bakehouse Cottages | 31 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 1 Bakehouse Cottages | 27 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £231,371 |
| Yew Tree Cottage | 1 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £420,000 | £571,622 |
| Blyth Cottage | 9 Nov 2016 | Detached | £439,500 | £613,559 |
| Caravela | 14 Oct 2016 | Detached | £450,000 | £628,218 |
| Old Farm Bungalow | 29 Sep 2016 | Detached | £790,000 | £1,102,871 |
| Thornton Cottage | 23 Sep 2016 | Semi-detached | £622,500 | £869,035 |
| Willow House | 22 Jun 2016 | Detached | £570,000 | £795,743 |
| 2 Chapel Cottage | 25 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £350,000 | £488,614 |
| 5 Stonewall Cottages | 12 Feb 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £193,500 | £270,134 |
| 2 Packhouse Cottages | 3 Aug 2015 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £423,000 |
| 5 Bakehouse Cottages | 30 Jun 2015 | Terraced | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| Blyth Cottage | 27 Feb 2015 | Detached | £400,000 | £564,000 |
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 Petworth Road, Billingshurst values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARAVELA Petworth Road | £297,500 (2012) | £620,000 (2022) | +7.6% | +4.9% |
| GREENBRIDGE COTTAGE Petworth Road | £420,000 (2003) | £892,500 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.4% |
| 5 BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road | £225,000 (2015) | £318,000 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| OLD FARM BUNGALOW Petworth Road | £187,500 (1998) | £875,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 2 CHAPEL COTTAGE Petworth Road | £75,000 (1996) | £480,000 (2021) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| MEADOW VIEW Petworth Road | £172,500 (2000) | £355,000 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.3% |
| BRIDGE HOUSE Petworth Road | £395,000 (1999) | £780,000 (2021) | +3.1% | +0.9% |
| FOXLEY Petworth Road | £157,500 (1999) | £355,000 (2020) | +3.9% | +1.7% |
| 6 BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road | £73,000 (2001) | £220,000 (2020) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 3 BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road | £62,000 (2000) | £160,000 (2018) | +5.4% | +3.1% |
| 1 BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road | £57,000 (1998) | £170,000 (2017) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| YEW TREE COTTAGE Petworth Road | £120,000 (1995) | £420,000 (2017) | +5.9% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Petworth Road, Billingshurst 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 | 44 | 41.5% | £390,000 | £50,000 – £1,995,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 24.5% | £237,500 | £47,000 – £622,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 24 | 22.6% | £90,000 | £38,500 – £220,000 |
| Terraced | 12 | 11.3% | £225,000 | £73,000 – £480,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Petworth Road, Billingshurst
28 of the sales on record are leasehold and 78 freehold — 26.4% 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 £91,500 and the median freehold sale £342,500 — a gap of +274.3%. 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 | 28 | 26.4% | £91,500 |
| Freehold | 78 | 73.6% | £342,500 |
| New build | 3 | 2.8% | £275,000 |
| Existing home | 103 | 97.2% | £237,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +15.8%. 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 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 Petworth Road, Billingshurst
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chichester, 44.4% of 65,469 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 520 | 0.8% |
| B | 9,731 | 14.9% |
| C | 18,790 | 28.7% |
| D | 20,545 | 31.4% |
| E | 10,738 | 16.4% |
| F | 3,924 | 6.0% |
| G | 1,221 | 1.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chichester at £1,326 a month as of Jun 2026 — £942 for a one-bedroom home and £1,498 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £240,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.61% 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.
No street-level crime was published for RH14 in Jun 2026 by Sussex. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Petworth Road, Billingshurst
The 2021 census counted 124,068 residents in Chichester across 54,118 households. 66.8% of those households own their home and 33.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
5 state and independent schools have a RH14 postcode: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weald School, The | Secondary | Community school | 1,800 |
| Billingshurst Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 596 |
| Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School | Primary | Community school | 195 |
| Wisborough Green Primary School | Primary | Community school | 186 |
| Loxwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 178 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Billingshurst Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Pulborough Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
| Christs Hospital Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
| Horsham Rail Station | Rail | 12.2 km |
Section 09
How Petworth Road, Billingshurst compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Petworth Road, Billingshurst sits above that national figure — +52.9%.
Within Billingshurst the street ranks 182 of 236 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £300,000 (-19.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,841 per square metre, across 4 of the 106 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 £38,500 to £1,995,000. 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.
Petworth Road, Billingshurst sits in Chichester, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chichester at 12.3 times median local earnings of £33,692 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
- High Street£180,000 median
- Berrall Way£241,000 median
- Morris Drive£250,000 median
- Station Road£158,950 median
- Holders Close£215,000 median
- The Drive£497,000 median
- Brookers Road£155,000 median
- Cranham Avenue£254,950 median
- Plaistow Road£457,500 median
- Rosehill£147,950 median
- Luxford Way£224,675 median
- Guildford Road£330,000 median
- Lakers Meadow£144,250 median
- Forge Way£186,000 median
- Saddlers Close£280,000 median
- The Ride£453,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1, BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road5 sales
- YEW TREE COTTAGE Petworth Road5 sales
- CARAVELA Petworth Road4 sales
- OLD FARM BUNGALOW Petworth Road4 sales
- 2, CHAPEL COTTAGE Petworth Road4 sales
- FOXLEY Petworth Road4 sales
- 3, BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road4 sales
- 5, STONEWALL COTTAGES Petworth Road4 sales
- VINE COTTAGE Petworth Road4 sales
- BRIDGE HOUSE Petworth Road3 sales
- 6, BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road3 sales
- BLYTH COTTAGE Petworth Road3 sales
- 3, STONEWALL COTTAGES Petworth Road3 sales
- WICKETS COTTAGE Petworth Road3 sales
- LITTLE CHESTNUTS Petworth Road3 sales
- 2, BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road3 sales
- IVY HOUSE Petworth Road3 sales
- GREENBRIDGE COTTAGE Petworth Road2 sales
- 5, BAKEHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road2 sales
- MEADOW VIEW Petworth Road2 sales
- THORNTON COTTAGE Petworth Road2 sales
- WILLOW HOUSE Petworth Road2 sales
- 2, PACKHOUSE COTTAGES Petworth Road2 sales
- NORTHCOTE Petworth Road2 sales
Back to Billingshurst house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Petworth Road, Billingshurst?
The median price paid in Petworth Road, Billingshurst across every sale on the register is £240,750. 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 Petworth Road, Billingshurst?
106 sales are on record for Petworth Road, Billingshurst, the most recent completing on 17 Feb 2023. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Petworth Road, Billingshurst house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +2.3% between 2006 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -19.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Petworth Road, Billingshurst house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £450,000, set in 2016. 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 Petworth Road, Billingshurst?
£1,841 per square metre, from the 4 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 17 Feb 2023. 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, “Petworth Road, Billingshurst 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.