James Close, Chippenham house prices are built from 159 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 15 years from 2008 to 2023 the median moved +72.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.9%.
Median price paid
£110,000
Change in cash, 2008–2023
+72.3%
Change in real terms
+10.9%
Median per m²
£2,272
HM Land Registry159 sales58 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026
Section 01
How James Close, Chippenham prices moved
The chart tracks the median James Close, Chippenham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | 5 | £46,000 | £102,142 |
| 2000s | 8 | £120,500 | £219,516 |
| 2010s | 2 | £152,975 | £215,695 |
| 2020s | 1 | £227,500 | £232,446 |
The highest yearly median on record for James Close, Chippenham is £227,500 in 2023; the lowest is £39,750 in 1995. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £39,750 to £227,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,264, so the real change over the whole record is +178.5% — about +3.73% 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: +72.3% in cash against +10.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 39 | 19 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £236,500 | £236,500 |
| 48 | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £182,500 | £186,467 |
| 11 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 22 | 30 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| 37 | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £215,500 | £226,757 |
| 26 | 25 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £191,000 | £200,978 |
| 32 | 19 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| 53 | 17 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 3 | 10 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £223,000 | £240,943 |
| 33 | 6 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 46 | 17 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 36 | 30 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 31 | 21 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £213,000 | £246,779 |
| 52 | 19 May 2022 | Terraced | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 41 | 31 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £192,000 | £222,449 |
| 10 | 17 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £214,950 | £271,577 |
| 1 | 24 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £232,500 | £293,750 |
| 39 | 6 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 34 | 8 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £189,950 | £245,941 |
| 15 | 10 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £176,000 | £230,204 |
| 32 | 20 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £190,000 | £248,516 |
| 33 | 4 May 2018 | Terraced | £190,000 | £253,214 |
| 29 | 27 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £185,000 | £246,550 |
| 5 | 21 Sep 2017 | Terraced | £190,000 | £258,591 |
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 James Close, Chippenham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 James Close | £43,500 (1997) | £205,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 39 James Close | £48,000 (1997) | £236,500 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 48 James Close | £43,000 (1998) | £182,500 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 11 James Close | £77,500 (2001) | £220,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 22 James Close | £38,500 (1996) | £195,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 37 James Close | £68,000 (2000) | £215,500 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 26 James Close | £44,100 (1998) | £191,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 32 James Close | £68,000 (2001) | £230,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 53 James Close | £58,000 (1995) | £260,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 3 James Close | £49,500 (1998) | £223,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 33 James Close | £140,000 (2006) | £245,000 (2023) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 46 James Close | £42,000 (1998) | £165,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. James Close, Chippenham 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 | 140 | 88.1% | £110,000 | £34,500 – £290,000 |
| Semi-detached | 18 | 11.3% | £66,000 | £37,000 – £260,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.6% | £33,950 | £33,950 – £33,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in James Close, Chippenham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 159 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 | 159 | 100.0% | £110,000 |
A further 2 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 James Close, Chippenham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wiltshire, 46.2% of 244,491 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,879 | 0.8% |
| B | 35,247 | 14.4% |
| C | 75,811 | 31.0% |
| D | 82,467 | 33.7% |
| E | 35,498 | 14.5% |
| F | 10,863 | 4.4% |
| G | 2,726 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wiltshire at £1,069 a month as of Jun 2026 — £740 for a one-bedroom home and £1,204 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.66% 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 SN15, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.
Against the 510,333 residents the 2021 census counted in Wiltshire, that is 0.00 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 James Close, Chippenham
The 2021 census counted 510,333 residents in Wiltshire across 215,081 households. 68.0% of those households own their home and 31.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a SN15 postcode: 15 primary, 1 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbeyfield School | Secondary | Academy converter | 902 |
| Ivy Lane Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 451 |
| Lyneham Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 305 |
| Kings Lodge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 298 |
| Monkton Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 252 |
| Charter Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 184 |
| St Paul's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 175 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 165 |
| Sutton Benger Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 165 |
| Brinkworth Earl Danby's Church of England Primary | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 136 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chippenham Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Melksham Rail Station | Rail | 11.2 km |
| Bradford-on-Avon Rail Station | Rail | 18.5 km |
| Trowbridge Rail Station | Rail | 19.3 km |
Section 09
How James Close, Chippenham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. James Close, Chippenham sits below that national figure — -30.2%.
Within Chippenham the street ranks 801 of 873 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £178,000 (-38.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,272 per square metre, across 58 of the 159 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 £33,950 to £290,000. 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.
James Close, Chippenham sits in Wiltshire, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wiltshire at 8.8 times median local earnings of £36,370 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
- Malmesbury Road£225,000 median
- London Road£152,250 median
- Charter Road£95,000 median
- Park Lane£136,400 median
- Lowden£140,000 median
- Rowe Mead£104,000 median
- Victoria Drive£104,000 median
- Great Mead£200,000 median
- Langley Road£115,000 median
- The Green£287,500 median
- Wood Lane£137,000 median
- Britannia Crescent£113,500 median
- Eastern Avenue£180,000 median
- Waters Edge£116,000 median
- Gainey Gardens£290,498 median
- Marshfield Road£180,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 22 James Close7 sales
- 37 James Close7 sales
- 34 James Close6 sales
- 35 James Close6 sales
- 39 James Close5 sales
- 46 James Close5 sales
- 49 James Close5 sales
- 50 James Close5 sales
- 24 James Close5 sales
- 48 James Close4 sales
- 32 James Close4 sales
- 53 James Close4 sales
- 3 James Close4 sales
- 36 James Close4 sales
- 52 James Close4 sales
- 41 James Close4 sales
- 1 James Close4 sales
- 15 James Close4 sales
- 29 James Close4 sales
- 9 James Close4 sales
- 27 James Close4 sales
- 7 James Close4 sales
- 44 James Close3 sales
- 33 James Close3 sales
Back to Chippenham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in James Close, Chippenham?
The median price paid in James Close, Chippenham across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 James Close, Chippenham?
159 sales are on record for James Close, Chippenham, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have James Close, Chippenham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +72.3% between 2008 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were James Close, Chippenham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £227,500, set in 2023. 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 James Close, Chippenham?
£2,272 per square metre, from the 58 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 8 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, “James Close, Chippenham 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.