The Cross, Blandford Forum house prices are built from 94 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 2 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 16 years from 2005 to 2021 the median moved +98.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +37.5%.
Median price paid
£250,000
Change in cash, 2005–2021
+98.2%
Change in real terms
+37.5%
Median per m²
£4,374
HM Land Registry94 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Jun 2026
Section 01
How The Cross, Blandford Forum prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Cross, Blandford Forum house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 3 | £91,500 | £203,173 |
| 2000s | 2 | £161,250 | £293,750 |
| 2010s | 1 | £340,000 | £479,400 |
| 2020s | 1 | £440,000 | £449,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Cross, Blandford Forum is £440,000 in 2021; the lowest is £89,250 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £114,000 to £440,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £247,292, so the real change over the whole record is +124.8% — about +3.29% 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: +98.2% in cash against +37.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dairy Cottage St. Nicholas Court | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| The Shambles | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| Ye Olde Bell Stores | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £540,000 | £540,000 |
| Fox Cottage | 15 Apr 2026 | Detached | £615,000 | £615,000 |
| Fairholme | 2 Dec 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| Burlton Cottage | 6 Nov 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 75 | 12 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| Ashmead | 15 Nov 2024 | Detached | £545,000 | £573,470 |
| Hill Cottage St. Nicholas Court | 8 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £498,192 |
| Maypole Cottage | 14 Apr 2022 | Detached | £397,500 | £460,538 |
| Stockfold | 12 Nov 2021 | Detached | £575,000 | £726,478 |
| Cross House | 24 Sep 2021 | Detached | £902,500 | £1,140,255 |
| Badgers | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| Okeford Cottage, 52 | 18 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £530,645 |
| Maypole Cottage | 19 Mar 2021 | Detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| Bowland | 26 Oct 2020 | Detached | £527,500 | £682,989 |
| Corner Cottage | 18 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £257,000 | £336,150 |
| Stockfold | 3 May 2018 | Detached | £470,000 | £626,371 |
| Steamer Cottage, 76 | 12 Jan 2018 | Terraced | £323,000 | £430,463 |
| Windover | 18 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £307,500 | £418,509 |
| Cherry Cottage | 26 Sep 2017 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £387,886 |
| 52 | 21 Jul 2017 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £483,156 |
| Green Acres | 20 Dec 2016 | Detached | £370,000 | £516,535 |
| Iona | 15 Jul 2016 | Detached | £280,000 | £390,891 |
| Ivy House | 6 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £340,000 | £474,653 |
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 The Cross, Blandford Forum values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE SHAMBLES the Cross | £68,000 (1999) | £255,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| YE OLDE BELL STORES the Cross | £203,000 (2002) | £540,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
| FAIRHOLME the Cross | £150,000 (2002) | £450,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| ASHMEAD the Cross | £395,000 (2013) | £545,000 (2024) | +3.0% | 0.0% |
| MAYPOLE COTTAGE the Cross | £375,000 (2021) | £397,500 (2022) | +6.0% | -2.8% |
| STOCKFOLD the Cross | £470,000 (2018) | £575,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +5.1% |
| CROSS HOUSE the Cross | £298,150 (2015) | £902,500 (2021) | +20.3% | +18.1% |
| BADGERS the Cross | £100,000 (1997) | £440,000 (2021) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| BOWLAND the Cross | £218,000 (2003) | £527,500 (2020) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
| CORNER COTTAGE the Cross | £78,000 (1997) | £257,000 (2019) | +5.6% | +3.3% |
| STEAMER COTTAGE, 76 the Cross | £225,000 (2009) | £323,000 (2018) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| WINDOVER the Cross | £150,000 (2015) | £307,500 (2017) | +43.2% | +40.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Cross, Blandford Forum 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 | 51 | 54.3% | £325,000 | £60,000 – £902,500 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 24.5% | £210,000 | £68,000 – £430,000 |
| Terraced | 15 | 16.0% | £225,000 | £50,000 – £390,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 5.3% | £115,000 | £53,500 – £149,940 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Cross, Blandford Forum
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 89 freehold — 5.3% 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 £115,000 and the median freehold sale £255,000 — a gap of +121.7%. 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 | 5 | 5.3% | £115,000 |
| Freehold | 89 | 94.7% | £255,000 |
| New build | 7 | 7.4% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 87 | 92.6% | £255,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -41.2%. 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 The Cross, Blandford Forum
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Dorset, 43.1% of 188,938 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,111 | 0.6% |
| B | 22,229 | 11.8% |
| C | 58,170 | 30.8% |
| D | 66,245 | 35.1% |
| E | 28,834 | 15.3% |
| F | 9,430 | 5.0% |
| G | 2,919 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Dorset at £1,046 a month as of Jun 2026 — £724 for a one-bedroom home and £1,178 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.02% 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 DT11, 20 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 5 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 8.4 times quieter.
Against the 379,579 residents the 2021 census counted in Dorset, that is 0.05 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 The Cross, Blandford Forum
The 2021 census counted 379,579 residents in Dorset across 169,261 households. 71.4% of those households own their home and 28.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a DT11 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blandford School | Secondary | Voluntary controlled school | 1,103 |
| Archbishop Wake Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 411 |
| Blandford St Mary Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| Downlands Community School | Primary | Community school | 201 |
| Milldown CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 200 |
| Spetisbury CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 187 |
| Pimperne Church of England VC Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 183 |
| Durweston Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 144 |
| Dunbury Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 131 |
| St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Child Okeford | Primary | Academy converter | 125 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Holton Heath Rail Station | Rail | 18.3 km |
| Hamworthy Rail Station | Rail | 19.1 km |
| Wareham Rail Station | Rail | 19.4 km |
| Moreton (Dorset) Rail Station | Rail | 20.1 km |
Section 09
How The Cross, Blandford Forum compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Cross, Blandford Forum sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Within Blandford Forum the street ranks 140 of 425 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £205,000 (+22.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,374 per square metre, across 2 of the 94 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 £50,000 to £902,500. 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.
The Cross, Blandford Forum sits in Dorset, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dorset at 9.9 times median local earnings of £35,311 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
- Salisbury Road£156,000 median
- High Street£249,950 median
- East Street£72,000 median
- Salisbury Street£125,000 median
- Bournemouth Road£225,000 median
- Cobham Road£204,975 median
- Old Farm Gardens£121,500 median
- West Street£180,000 median
- Bryanston Street£92,500 median
- Downside Close£175,000 median
- Eastleaze Road£114,500 median
- Lockeridge Close£157,000 median
- Southover Close£125,000 median
- Victoria Road£155,000 median
- Dorset Street£126,500 median
- Cereleton Park£230,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- CROSS COTTAGE the Cross7 sales
- CORNER COTTAGE the Cross4 sales
- IONA the Cross4 sales
- 1, TOWER VIEW the Cross4 sales
- THE SHAMBLES the Cross3 sales
- YE OLDE BELL STORES the Cross3 sales
- FAIRHOLME the Cross3 sales
- BADGERS the Cross3 sales
- BOWLAND the Cross3 sales
- CHERRY COTTAGE the Cross3 sales
- IVY HOUSE the Cross3 sales
- THE GATE HOUSE 1, ST. NICHOLAS COURT the Cross3 sales
- ASHMEAD the Cross2 sales
- MAYPOLE COTTAGE the Cross2 sales
- STOCKFOLD the Cross2 sales
- CROSS HOUSE the Cross2 sales
- STEAMER COTTAGE, 76 the Cross2 sales
- WINDOVER the Cross2 sales
- 52 the Cross2 sales
- GARFIELDS the Cross2 sales
- CALLEYWELL COTTAGE the Cross2 sales
- MOWBRAY the Cross2 sales
- 43 the Cross2 sales
- GRASMERE the Cross2 sales
Back to Blandford Forum house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Cross, Blandford Forum?
The median price paid in The Cross, Blandford Forum across every sale on the register is £250,000. 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 The Cross, Blandford Forum?
94 sales are on record for The Cross, Blandford Forum, the most recent completing on 2 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Cross, Blandford Forum house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +98.2% between 2005 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +37.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Cross, Blandford Forum house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £440,000, 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 The Cross, Blandford Forum?
£4,374 per square metre, from the 2 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 2 Jun 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, “The Cross, Blandford Forum 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.