River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe house prices are built from 107 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 19 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £88,165. Across the 6 years from 1999 to 2005 the median moved +110.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +87.9%.
Median price paid
£88,165
Change in cash, 1999–2005
+110.1%
Change in real terms
+87.9%
Median per m²
£1,571
HM Land Registry107 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Dec 2025
Section 01
How River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe prices moved
The chart tracks the median River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2005. 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 | £56,950 | £126,456 |
| 2000s | 5 | £105,500 | £192,190 |
The highest yearly median on record for River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe is £119,675 in 2005; the lowest is £56,950 in 1999. Across the full 7-year record the cash median has moved from £56,950 to £119,675.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,040, so the real change over the whole record is +87.9% — about +11.08% 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: +110.1% in cash against +87.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 19 Dec 2025 | Detached | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 43 | 10 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £190,300 | £200,241 |
| 25 | 14 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 20 | 29 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £236,500 | £255,529 |
| 21 | 8 Apr 2022 | Detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 39 | 3 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £291,322 |
| 3 | 2 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 10 | 14 Nov 2019 | Detached | £200,000 | £261,596 |
| 25 | 14 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £183,117 |
| 12 | 5 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £138,000 | £180,501 |
| 24 | 1 Feb 2019 | Detached | £217,500 | £284,485 |
| 23 | 1 Dec 2017 | Detached | £210,000 | £285,811 |
| 12 | 21 Oct 2016 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £188,465 |
| 21 | 23 Aug 2016 | Detached | £194,000 | £270,832 |
| 10 | 15 Sep 2015 | Detached | £176,000 | £248,160 |
| 28 | 11 Sep 2015 | Detached | £220,000 | £310,200 |
| 25 | 18 Nov 2014 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £172,126 |
| 22 | 19 Aug 2014 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £251,017 |
| 9 | 16 Jun 2014 | Terraced | £128,000 | £183,601 |
| 15 | 19 Feb 2014 | Terraced | £118,000 | £169,257 |
| 6 | 27 Feb 2013 | Terraced | £119,500 | £174,245 |
| 32 | 7 Feb 2011 | Semi-detached | £123,000 | £188,511 |
| 14 | 4 Jun 2010 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £255,493 |
| 6 | 29 Jul 2009 | Terraced | £110,500 | £181,591 |
| 20 | 18 May 2009 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £213,636 |
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 River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 River Lea Gardens | £66,881 (1999) | £245,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 43 River Lea Gardens | £77,700 (2000) | £190,300 (2024) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 25 River Lea Gardens | £120,000 (2014) | £180,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.0% |
| 20 River Lea Gardens | £79,500 (2000) | £236,500 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 21 River Lea Gardens | £74,700 (2000) | £260,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 39 River Lea Gardens | £64,700 (2000) | £225,000 (2020) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| 3 River Lea Gardens | £66,000 (2000) | £180,000 (2020) | +5.1% | +2.9% |
| 12 River Lea Gardens | £51,950 (1998) | £138,000 (2019) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 24 River Lea Gardens | £69,950 (1999) | £217,500 (2019) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 23 River Lea Gardens | £75,995 (2000) | £210,000 (2017) | +6.2% | +3.8% |
| 22 River Lea Gardens | £74,950 (1999) | £175,000 (2014) | +5.8% | +3.4% |
| 9 River Lea Gardens | £52,250 (1999) | £128,000 (2014) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 67 | 62.6% | £78,000 | £31,375 – £236,500 |
| Detached | 25 | 23.4% | £117,000 | £61,950 – £260,000 |
| Terraced | 15 | 14.0% | £105,000 | £51,950 – £128,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe
95 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12 freehold — 88.8% 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 £87,000 and the median freehold sale £125,000 — a gap of +43.7%. 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 | 95 | 88.8% | £87,000 |
| Freehold | 12 | 11.2% | £125,000 |
| New build | 36 | 33.6% | £59,075 |
| Existing home | 71 | 66.4% | £119,850 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -50.7%. 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 River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Hyndburn, 29.7% of 42,563 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 56 | 0.1% |
| B | 2,218 | 5.2% |
| C | 10,388 | 24.4% |
| D | 19,261 | 45.3% |
| E | 7,989 | 18.8% |
| F | 1,806 | 4.2% |
| G | 845 | 2.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Hyndburn at £642 a month as of Jun 2026 — £481 for a one-bedroom home and £721 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £88,165 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.74% 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 BB7, 101 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 39 violent, 3 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.
Against the 82,234 residents the 2021 census counted in Hyndburn, that is 1.23 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 River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe
The 2021 census counted 82,234 residents in Hyndburn across 34,790 households. 63.3% of those households own their home and 36.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a BB7 postcode: 17 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clitheroe Royal Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,496 |
| Ribblesdale School | All-through | Community school | 1,437 |
| St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,117 |
| Bowland High | Secondary | Academy converter | 644 |
| Clitheroe Pendle Primary School | Primary | Community school | 349 |
| Whalley Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 315 |
| St James' Church of England Primary School, Clitheroe | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 262 |
| Edisford Primary School | Primary | Community school | 212 |
| Barrow URC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 206 |
| Waddington and West Bradford Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 200 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Clitheroe Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Whalley Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Langho Rail Station | Rail | 8.3 km |
| Hapton Rail Station | Rail | 11.0 km |
Section 09
How River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe sits below that national figure — -44.0%.
Within Clitheroe the street ranks 571 of 620 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-44.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,571 per square metre, across 19 of the 107 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 £31,375 to £260,000. 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.
River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe sits in Hyndburn, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Hyndburn at 4.1 times median local earnings of £33,089 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
- Whalley Road£135,500 median
- Woone Lane£120,750 median
- Clitheroe Road£240,000 median
- Chatburn Road£150,000 median
- Pendle Drive£217,000 median
- Well Terrace£100,000 median
- Colthirst Drive£54,995 median
- Pimlico Road£168,000 median
- Salthill Road£125,000 median
- Brownlow Street£96,500 median
- West View£125,000 median
- Pasturelands Drive£139,500 median
- Henthorn Road£134,000 median
- Waddington Road£190,000 median
- Bracken Hey£119,000 median
- Kemple View£152,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 10 River Lea Gardens6 sales
- 3 River Lea Gardens6 sales
- 12 River Lea Gardens5 sales
- 9 River Lea Gardens5 sales
- 6 River Lea Gardens5 sales
- 21 River Lea Gardens4 sales
- 23 River Lea Gardens4 sales
- 22 River Lea Gardens4 sales
- 26 River Lea Gardens4 sales
- 29 River Lea Gardens4 sales
- 43 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 25 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 20 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 15 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 32 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 14 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 44 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 4 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 38 River Lea Gardens3 sales
- 39 River Lea Gardens2 sales
- 24 River Lea Gardens2 sales
- 34 River Lea Gardens2 sales
- 7 River Lea Gardens2 sales
- 8 River Lea Gardens2 sales
Back to Clitheroe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe?
The median price paid in River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe across every sale on the register is £88,165. 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 River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe?
107 sales are on record for River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe, the most recent completing on 19 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +110.1% between 1999 and 2005. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +87.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £119,675, set in 2005. 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 River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe?
£1,571 per square metre, from the 19 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 19 Dec 2025. 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, “River Lea Gardens, Clitheroe 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.