Water Lane, Cranbrook house prices are built from 59 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 5 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £465,000.
Median price paid
£465,000
Median per m²
£2,707
HM Land Registry59 sales3 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Water Lane, Cranbrook prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Water Lane, Cranbrook to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four Wents | 5 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £890,000 | £909,348 |
| Holly Cottage | 19 Sep 2024 | Detached | £975,000 | £1,025,933 |
| Coniston | 9 Nov 2023 | Detached | £1,042,000 | £1,125,839 |
| 1 Laundry Cottages Home Farm | 24 May 2023 | Terraced | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 2 Laundry Cottages Home Farm | 27 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £565,000 | £610,460 |
| 3 Laundry Cottages Home Farm | 10 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £807,500 | £935,559 |
| Spring Cottage | 27 May 2022 | Detached | £620,000 | £718,324 |
| Orchard House | 28 Feb 2022 | Detached | £2,160,000 | £2,502,547 |
| Yew Tree Cottage | 29 Sep 2021 | Detached | £650,000 | £821,237 |
| Springfields | 2 Oct 2020 | Detached | £1,450,000 | £1,877,410 |
| Four Wents | 25 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £783,750 | £1,014,773 |
| Home Farmhouse Home Farm | 6 Dec 2019 | Detached | £1,175,000 | £1,536,874 |
| Lower Tilden | 5 Nov 2019 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,569,573 |
| Tudor Bungalow | 20 Feb 2019 | Detached | £600,000 | £784,787 |
| Gun Green Oast | 7 Sep 2017 | Detached | £1,425,000 | £1,939,431 |
| Spring Cottage | 11 Aug 2016 | Detached | £460,000 | £642,178 |
| Yew Tree Cottage | 9 Oct 2015 | Detached | £390,000 | £549,900 |
| Coniston | 10 Jul 2015 | Detached | £555,000 | £782,550 |
| Four Wents Cottage | 27 Feb 2015 | Semi-detached | £487,000 | £686,670 |
| Beech Cottage | 10 Dec 2014 | Semi-detached | £590,000 | £846,287 |
| Prospect Cottage | 28 Nov 2014 | Detached | £690,000 | £989,725 |
| Holly Cottage | 16 Apr 2014 | Detached | £465,000 | £666,989 |
| 2 Laundry Cottages Home Farm | 14 Feb 2014 | Terraced | £380,000 | £545,066 |
| East Stables Home Farm | 13 Nov 2013 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £729,059 |
| Lower Tilden | 11 Oct 2012 | Detached | £875,000 | £1,306,939 |
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 Water Lane, Cranbrook values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOUR WENTS Water Lane | £460,000 (2003) | £890,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| HOLLY COTTAGE Water Lane | £465,000 (2014) | £975,000 (2024) | +7.7% | +4.4% |
| CONISTON Water Lane | £555,000 (2015) | £1,042,000 (2023) | +8.2% | +4.7% |
| 1 LAUNDRY COTTAGES HOME FARM Water Lane | £85,000 (1997) | £400,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 2 LAUNDRY COTTAGES HOME FARM Water Lane | £95,000 (1996) | £565,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| SPRING COTTAGE Water Lane | £152,500 (1997) | £620,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| ORCHARD HOUSE Water Lane | £212,000 (1995) | £2,160,000 (2022) | +9.0% | +6.4% |
| YEW TREE COTTAGE Water Lane | £390,000 (2015) | £650,000 (2021) | +8.9% | +6.9% |
| SPRINGFIELDS Water Lane | £200,000 (1995) | £1,450,000 (2020) | +8.2% | +5.9% |
| HOME FARMHOUSE HOME FARM Water Lane | £208,500 (1996) | £1,175,000 (2019) | +7.8% | +5.5% |
| LOWER TILDEN Water Lane | £337,500 (2001) | £1,200,000 (2019) | +7.3% | +4.9% |
| TUDOR BUNGALOW Water Lane | £187,500 (1998) | £600,000 (2019) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Water Lane, Cranbrook 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 | 37 | 62.7% | £600,000 | £71,000 – £2,160,000 |
| Terraced | 14 | 23.7% | £315,000 | £52,000 – £807,500 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 13.6% | £487,000 | £230,000 – £890,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Water Lane, Cranbrook
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 59 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 | 59 | 100.0% | £465,000 |
| New build | 3 | 5.1% | £85,000 |
| Existing home | 56 | 94.9% | £481,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -82.3%. 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 7 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 09
How Water Lane, Cranbrook compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Water Lane, Cranbrook sits above that national figure — +195.2%.
Within Cranbrook the street ranks 55 of 315 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £270,000 (+72.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,707 per square metre, across 3 of the 59 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 £52,000 to £2,160,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Cranbrook Road£235,000 median
- Rye Road£343,000 median
- Talbot Road£235,000 median
- Hastings Road£351,000 median
- Highgate Hill£280,500 median
- Smugglers£86,500 median
- Horns Road£345,000 median
- The Moor£285,000 median
- Winchester Road£149,000 median
- Bodiam Road£319,266 median
- Moor Hill£300,000 median
- Lossenham Lane£370,000 median
- Stream Pit Lane£204,000 median
- Woodbury Road£141,000 median
- Conghurst Lane£315,000 median
- Herschel Place£490,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2 LAUNDRY COTTAGES, HOME FARM Water Lane5 sales
- BEECH COTTAGE Water Lane4 sales
- FOUR WENTS Water Lane3 sales
- SPRING COTTAGE Water Lane3 sales
- SPRINGFIELDS Water Lane3 sales
- LOWER TILDEN Water Lane3 sales
- GUN GREEN OAST Water Lane3 sales
- WOODSDEN OAST Water Lane3 sales
- HOLLY COTTAGE Water Lane2 sales
- CONISTON Water Lane2 sales
- 1 LAUNDRY COTTAGES, HOME FARM Water Lane2 sales
- ORCHARD HOUSE Water Lane2 sales
- YEW TREE COTTAGE Water Lane2 sales
- HOME FARMHOUSE, HOME FARM Water Lane2 sales
- TUDOR BUNGALOW Water Lane2 sales
- EAST STABLES, HOME FARM Water Lane2 sales
- 3, LAUNDRY COTTAGES Water Lane2 sales
- WOODSDEN BARN Water Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Water Lane, Cranbrook?
The median price paid in Water Lane, Cranbrook across every sale on the register is £465,000. 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 Water Lane, Cranbrook?
59 sales are on record for Water Lane, Cranbrook, the most recent completing on 5 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Water Lane, Cranbrook house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £230,000, set in 1999. 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 Water Lane, Cranbrook?
£2,707 per square metre, from the 3 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 5 Sep 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, “Water Lane, Cranbrook 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.