Cotton Tree Lane, Colne house prices are built from 142 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 16 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 15 years from 2010 to 2025 the median moved +53.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.7%.
Median price paid
£100,000
Change in cash, 2010–2025
+53.6%
Change in real terms
-1.7%
Median per m²
£1,014
HM Land Registry142 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Cotton Tree Lane, Colne prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cotton Tree Lane, Colne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | £35,500 | £78,827 |
| 2000s | 5 | £64,625 | £117,728 |
| 2010s | 2 | £118,000 | £166,380 |
| 2020s | 2 | £154,625 | £157,986 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cotton Tree Lane, Colne is £181,250 in 2025; the lowest is £34,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £35,500 to £181,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £77,008, so the real change over the whole record is +140.5% — about +3.07% 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: +53.6% in cash against -1.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 16 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £179,000 | £182,891 |
| 127 | 12 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £167,000 | £170,630 |
| 189 | 29 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £197,500 | £201,793 |
| Sunny Brae | 30 May 2025 | Detached | £287,500 | £293,750 |
| 185 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £183,500 | £187,489 |
| 27 | 3 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £107,000 | £109,326 |
| 5 | 19 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £140,000 | £147,313 |
| 137 | 26 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 171 | 22 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £176,500 | £185,720 |
| 16 | 19 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £112,000 | £121,011 |
| 189 | 3 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £181,500 | £196,103 |
| Sunny Brae | 13 Jan 2023 | Detached | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 185 | 26 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £109,500 | £126,865 |
| 111 | 25 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 133 | 1 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £159,250 | £184,505 |
| 44 | 18 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 171 | 4 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £149,950 | £173,730 |
| 11 | 25 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 8 | 1 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 5 | 14 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 149 | 2 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £137,500 | £173,723 |
| 139 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 3 | 2 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £131,950 | £170,844 |
| 42 | 13 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £110,000 | £142,424 |
| 169 | 28 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £114,000 | £147,603 |
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 Cotton Tree Lane, Colne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Cotton Tree Lane | £100,000 (2009) | £179,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 189 Cotton Tree Lane | £28,800 (1996) | £197,500 (2025) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| SUNNY BRAE Cotton Tree Lane | £45,000 (1999) | £287,500 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 185 Cotton Tree Lane | £109,500 (2022) | £183,500 (2025) | +18.8% | +13.9% |
| 5 Cotton Tree Lane | £99,000 (2006) | £140,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 171 Cotton Tree Lane | £25,000 (1998) | £176,500 (2024) | +7.8% | +5.0% |
| 111 Cotton Tree Lane | £54,400 (2001) | £175,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.1% |
| 44 Cotton Tree Lane | £109,950 (2014) | £170,000 (2022) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 11 Cotton Tree Lane | £58,000 (2003) | £150,000 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.5% |
| 139 Cotton Tree Lane | £50,000 (2003) | £155,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.1% |
| 3 Cotton Tree Lane | £35,000 (1995) | £131,950 (2020) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| 169 Cotton Tree Lane | £41,000 (1999) | £114,000 (2020) | +5.0% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cotton Tree Lane, Colne 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 | 122 | 85.9% | £99,000 | £8,000 – £197,500 |
| Detached | 11 | 7.7% | £119,454 | £25,000 – £287,500 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 6.3% | £100,000 | £54,500 – £152,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cotton Tree Lane, Colne
125 of the sales on record are leasehold and 17 freehold — 88.0% 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 £99,000 and the median freehold sale £119,454 — a gap of +20.7%. 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 | 125 | 88.0% | £99,000 |
| Freehold | 17 | 12.0% | £119,454 |
| New build | 4 | 2.8% | £66,450 |
| Existing home | 138 | 97.2% | £100,688 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -34.0%. 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 6 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 Cotton Tree Lane, Colne
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Pendle, 26.8% of 49,697 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 453 | 0.9% |
| B | 2,358 | 4.7% |
| C | 10,531 | 21.2% |
| D | 21,343 | 42.9% |
| E | 11,143 | 22.4% |
| F | 2,841 | 5.7% |
| G | 1,028 | 2.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Pendle at £658 a month as of Jun 2026 — £488 for a one-bedroom home and £726 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £100,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.90% 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 BB8, 191 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 86 violent, 4 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 39 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 95,757 residents the 2021 census counted in Pendle, that is 1.99 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 Cotton Tree Lane, Colne
The 2021 census counted 95,757 residents in Pendle across 38,066 households. 65.2% of those households own their home and 34.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a BB8 postcode: 9 primary, 3 secondary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colne Park High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 989 |
| Ss John Fisher and Thomas More Roman Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 812 |
| Colne Primet Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 805 |
| Colne Lord Street School | Primary | Academy converter | 327 |
| Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 319 |
| Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 216 |
| Laneshaw Bridge Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| Trawden Forest Primary School | Primary | Community school | 193 |
| Colne Christ Church Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 187 |
| Colne Primet Primary School | Primary | Community school | 185 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Colne Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Nelson Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Brierfield Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Burnley Barracks Rail Station | Rail | 9.7 km |
Section 09
How Cotton Tree Lane, Colne compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cotton Tree Lane, Colne sits below that national figure — -36.5%.
Within Colne the street ranks 159 of 387 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £81,500 (+22.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,014 per square metre, across 36 of the 142 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 £8,000 to £287,500. 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.
Cotton Tree Lane, Colne sits in Pendle, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Pendle at 4.5 times median local earnings of £30,981 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
- Skipton Road£99,000 median
- Keighley Road£152,000 median
- Burnley Road£57,000 median
- Langroyd Road£75,000 median
- Skipton Old Road£213,500 median
- Birtwistle Avenue£78,500 median
- Oak Street£47,000 median
- Cleveland Street£38,250 median
- Walton Street£35,000 median
- North Street£40,000 median
- Glen Street£38,000 median
- The Meadows£125,000 median
- Castle Road£170,000 median
- Hollin Hall£149,950 median
- Alkincoats Road£123,960 median
- Barrowford Road£124,726 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 125 Cotton Tree Lane6 sales
- 189 Cotton Tree Lane5 sales
- 171 Cotton Tree Lane5 sales
- 5 Cotton Tree Lane4 sales
- 139 Cotton Tree Lane4 sales
- 169 Cotton Tree Lane4 sales
- 177 Cotton Tree Lane4 sales
- 21 Cotton Tree Lane4 sales
- FERNDEAN Cotton Tree Lane4 sales
- 27 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- SUNNY BRAE Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 111 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 44 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 11 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 153 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 141 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 38 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 173 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 9 Cotton Tree Lane3 sales
- 185 Cotton Tree Lane2 sales
- 3 Cotton Tree Lane2 sales
- 10 Cotton Tree Lane2 sales
- 195 Cotton Tree Lane2 sales
- 109 Cotton Tree Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cotton Tree Lane, Colne?
The median price paid in Cotton Tree Lane, Colne across every sale on the register is £100,000. 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 Cotton Tree Lane, Colne?
142 sales are on record for Cotton Tree Lane, Colne, the most recent completing on 16 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cotton Tree Lane, Colne house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +53.6% between 2010 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cotton Tree Lane, Colne house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £181,250, set in 2025. 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 Cotton Tree Lane, Colne?
£1,014 per square metre, from the 36 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 16 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, “Cotton Tree Lane, Colne 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.