Sold Price History


Barmpton Lane, Darlington house prices

Barmpton Lane, Darlington house prices are built from 161 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £140,000. Across the 16 years from 2008 to 2024 the median moved +45.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.8%.

Median price paid

£140,000

Change in cash, 2008–2024

+45.5%

Change in real terms

-8.8%

Median per m²

£1,678

HM Land Registry161 sales47 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jun 2026

Section 01

How Barmpton Lane, Darlington prices moved

The chart tracks the median Barmpton Lane, Darlington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Barmpton Lane, Darlington house prices by year, median price paid 1999 to 2024
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s1£59,500£132,118
2000s8£134,000£244,109
2010s1£155,000£218,550
2020s4£195,000£199,239
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Barmpton Lane, Darlington is £220,000 in 2021; the lowest is £50,500 in 2000. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £59,500 to £195,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £121,236, so the real change over the whole record is +69.2% — about +2.13% 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: +45.5% in cash against -8.8% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
11615 Jun 2026Semi-detached£255,000£255,000
9729 May 2026Semi-detached£155,000£155,000
938 May 2026Semi-detached£190,000£190,000
16227 Feb 2026Detached£260,000£260,000
12021 Nov 2025Semi-detached£160,000£163,478
6926 Sep 2025Terraced£125,000£127,717
6118 Aug 2025Semi-detached£118,000£120,565
9028 Feb 2025Semi-detached£244,000£249,304
105a13 Dec 2024Semi-detached£223,000£234,649
14013 Dec 2024Semi-detached£142,000£149,418
9929 Nov 2024Semi-detached£145,000£152,575
1081 Nov 2024Detached£197,000£207,291
9818 Oct 2024Semi-detached£193,000£203,082
10216 Sep 2024Semi-detached£235,000£247,276
8713 Sep 2024Detached£250,000£263,060
15219 Jul 2024Semi-detached£130,000£136,791
5329 May 2024Detached£460,000£484,030
3128 May 2024Semi-detached£173,000£182,037
12410 May 2024Semi-detached£200,000£210,448
6419 Jan 2024Semi-detached£123,000£129,425
1306 Sep 2023Detached£295,000£318,736
23a16 Jun 2023Detached£270,000£291,724
975 May 2023Semi-detached£135,000£145,862
4928 Apr 2023Detached£360,000£388,966
6313 Apr 2023Semi-detached£132,000£142,621
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Barmpton Lane, Darlington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
116 Barmpton Lane£179,000 (2006)£255,000 (2026)+1.8%-1.1%
97 Barmpton Lane£33,000 (2000)£155,000 (2026)+6.1%+3.3%
69 Barmpton Lane£31,500 (1999)£125,000 (2025)+5.4%+2.7%
61 Barmpton Lane£85,000 (2004)£118,000 (2025)+1.6%-1.3%
90 Barmpton Lane£62,250 (1995)£244,000 (2025)+4.7%+2.0%
105A Barmpton Lane£110,000 (2007)£223,000 (2024)+4.2%+1.2%
99 Barmpton Lane£47,000 (1999)£145,000 (2024)+4.6%+1.9%
98 Barmpton Lane£160,000 (2020)£193,000 (2024)+4.8%-0.5%
102 Barmpton Lane£52,500 (1998)£235,000 (2024)+5.9%+3.2%
53 Barmpton Lane£210,000 (2002)£460,000 (2024)+3.6%+0.8%
31 Barmpton Lane£45,000 (1997)£173,000 (2024)+5.1%+2.4%
124 Barmpton Lane£199,950 (2011)£200,000 (2024)+0.0%-2.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Barmpton Lane, Darlington is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached10464.6%£120,000£33,000 – £262,000
Detached4729.2%£222,000£63,500 – £750,000
Terraced106.2%£107,000£25,000 – £172,500
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Barmpton Lane, Darlington

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 161 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold00.0%
Freehold161100.0%£140,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

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 Barmpton Lane, Darlington

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across County Durham, 45.4% of 308,749 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A1,9550.6%
B26,3248.5%
C111,77336.2%
D123,57540.0%
E34,30411.1%
F8,1532.6%
G2,6650.9%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in County Durham.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in County Durham at £641 a month as of Jun 2026 — £450 for a one-bedroom home and £683 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £140,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.49% 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 DL1, 716 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 207 violent, 22 burglary, 20 vehicle-related and 164 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.3 times busier.

Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 1.37 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 Barmpton Lane, Darlington

The 2021 census counted 522,068 residents in County Durham across 234,764 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 37.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

17 state and independent schools have a DL1 postcode: 12 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Haughton AcademySecondaryAcademy converter854
Polam Hall SchoolAll-throughFree schools842
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondaryAcademy sponsor led587
The Rydal AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led584
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter439
Whinfield Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter433
Northwood Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led429
St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter342
St Bede's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter322
Firthmoor Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter279
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
North Road Rail StationRail1.2 km
Darlington Rail StationRail1.2 km
Dinsdale Rail StationRail4.9 km
Tees-side Airport Rail StationRail7.4 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Barmpton Lane, Darlington compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Barmpton Lane, Darlington sits below that national figure — -11.1%.

Within Darlington the street ranks 544 of 1380 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £101,500 (+37.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,678 per square metre, across 47 of the 161 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 £25,000 to £750,000. 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.

Barmpton Lane, Darlington sits in County Durham, in the North East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in County Durham at 4.3 times median local earnings of £32,945 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Darlington house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Barmpton Lane, Darlington?

The median price paid in Barmpton Lane, Darlington across every sale on the register is £140,000. 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 Barmpton Lane, Darlington?

161 sales are on record for Barmpton Lane, Darlington, the most recent completing on 15 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Barmpton Lane, Darlington house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +45.5% between 2008 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Barmpton Lane, Darlington house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £220,000, 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 Barmpton Lane, Darlington?

£1,678 per square metre, from the 47 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 15 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, “Barmpton Lane, Darlington 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.