High Stell, Darlington house prices are built from 124 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 1 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,725. Across the 13 years from 2004 to 2017 the median moved +18.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.2%.
Median price paid
£110,725
Change in cash, 2004–2017
+18.3%
Change in real terms
-13.2%
HM Land Registry124 salesLatest sale 1 Aug 2025
Section 01
How High Stell, Darlington prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Stell, Darlington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2017. 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 | 2 | £78,725 | £174,807 |
| 2000s | 5 | £109,950 | £200,297 |
| 2010s | 2 | £190,500 | £268,605 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Stell, Darlington is £218,500 in 2014; the lowest is £78,725 in 1998. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £78,725 to £190,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £163,239, so the real change over the whole record is +58.8% — about +2.46% 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: +18.3% in cash against -13.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £239,500 | £244,707 |
| 46 | 17 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £207,000 | £217,813 |
| 72 | 7 Jun 2024 | Detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 4 | 21 May 2024 | Detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 19 | 28 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £192,000 | £207,448 |
| 32 | 6 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £192,322 |
| 72 | 17 Feb 2022 | Detached | £272,527 | £315,746 |
| 10 | 4 Dec 2020 | Detached | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 56 | 3 Jul 2020 | Detached | £270,000 | £349,587 |
| 64 | 4 Dec 2017 | Detached | £181,000 | £246,342 |
| 3 | 22 Sep 2017 | Detached | £170,000 | £231,371 |
| 31 | 18 Sep 2017 | Detached | £249,500 | £339,570 |
| 26 | 14 Jul 2017 | Detached | £200,000 | £272,201 |
| 46 | 7 Jul 2017 | Semi-detached | £158,000 | £215,039 |
| 37 | 12 May 2017 | Detached | £280,000 | £381,081 |
| 12 | 15 Jul 2016 | Detached | £186,000 | £259,663 |
| 5 | 5 Aug 2015 | Detached | £215,000 | £303,150 |
| 10 | 31 Oct 2014 | Detached | £275,000 | £394,456 |
| 38 | 26 Sep 2014 | Detached | £170,000 | £243,845 |
| 64 | 12 Sep 2014 | Detached | £183,100 | £262,636 |
| 8 | 21 Feb 2014 | Detached | £218,500 | £313,413 |
| 2 | 6 Feb 2014 | Detached | £225,000 | £322,737 |
| 21 | 28 Nov 2013 | Detached | £173,500 | £252,983 |
| 52 | 25 Aug 2011 | Semi-detached | £136,000 | £208,435 |
| 7 | 11 Feb 2011 | Detached | £207,500 | £318,016 |
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 High Stell, Darlington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 High Stell | £79,950 (1999) | £239,500 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 46 High Stell | £63,950 (1998) | £207,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 72 High Stell | £94,950 (1999) | £295,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 4 High Stell | £85,950 (1997) | £275,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 19 High Stell | £63,500 (1998) | £192,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 32 High Stell | £63,950 (1998) | £178,000 (2023) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 10 High Stell | £97,950 (1998) | £285,000 (2020) | +5.0% | +2.8% |
| 56 High Stell | £89,950 (1998) | £270,000 (2020) | +5.1% | +2.9% |
| 64 High Stell | £80,950 (1999) | £181,000 (2017) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 3 High Stell | £71,950 (1998) | £170,000 (2017) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 31 High Stell | £111,450 (2000) | £249,500 (2017) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 26 High Stell | £89,950 (1999) | £200,000 (2017) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Stell, Darlington 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 | 103 | 83.1% | £113,950 | £64,950 – £295,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 16.9% | £65,000 | £63,500 – £207,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Stell, Darlington
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 124 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 | 124 | 100.0% | £110,725 |
| New build | 54 | 43.5% | £80,473 |
| Existing home | 70 | 56.5% | £161,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -50.0%. 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 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 High Stell, 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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,955 | 0.6% |
| B | 26,324 | 8.5% |
| C | 111,773 | 36.2% |
| D | 123,575 | 40.0% |
| E | 34,304 | 11.1% |
| F | 8,153 | 2.6% |
| G | 2,665 | 0.9% |
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 £110,725 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.95% 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 DL2, 130 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 31 violent, 2 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 52 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.25 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 High Stell, 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.
10 state and independent schools have a DL2 postcode: 8 primary, 2 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurworth School | Secondary | Academy converter | 621 |
| Staindrop Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 504 |
| West Park Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 464 |
| St. George's Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 408 |
| Hurworth Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 218 |
| Staindrop CofE (Controlled) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 179 |
| Croft Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 117 |
| High Coniscliffe CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 96 |
| Ingleton CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 48 |
| Gainford Church of England Primary School and Preschool | Primary | Academy converter | 42 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| North Road Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Darlington Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Heighington Rail Station | Rail | 7.6 km |
| Dinsdale Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
Section 09
How High Stell, Darlington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Stell, Darlington sits below that national figure — -29.7%.
Within Darlington the street ranks 746 of 1380 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £101,500 (+9.1%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £63,500 to £295,000. 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.
High Stell, 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
- Woodlands Green£139,995 median
- Heathfield Park£95,500 median
- St Georges Gate£205,000 median
- Front Street£172,750 median
- Collingsway£185,000 median
- Woolsington Drive£128,000 median
- Manor Road£150,000 median
- Hurworth Road£123,000 median
- Woodlands Way£157,500 median
- Winston Road£123,000 median
- Goosepool Way£280,950 median
- Darlington Road£143,000 median
- Chapel Street£97,750 median
- Teesway£222,500 median
- Friars Pardon£225,000 median
- George Stephenson Drive£199,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 20 High Stell4 sales
- 12 High Stell4 sales
- 38 High Stell4 sales
- 8 High Stell4 sales
- 17 High Stell4 sales
- 46 High Stell3 sales
- 72 High Stell3 sales
- 4 High Stell3 sales
- 19 High Stell3 sales
- 32 High Stell3 sales
- 10 High Stell3 sales
- 56 High Stell3 sales
- 64 High Stell3 sales
- 3 High Stell3 sales
- 37 High Stell3 sales
- 21 High Stell3 sales
- 54 High Stell3 sales
- 6 High Stell3 sales
- 35 High Stell3 sales
- 58 High Stell3 sales
- 31 High Stell2 sales
- 26 High Stell2 sales
- 5 High Stell2 sales
- 2 High Stell2 sales
Back to Darlington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Stell, Darlington?
The median price paid in High Stell, Darlington across every sale on the register is £110,725. 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 High Stell, Darlington?
124 sales are on record for High Stell, Darlington, the most recent completing on 1 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Stell, Darlington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +18.3% between 2004 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Stell, Darlington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £218,500, set in 2014. 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 High Stell, Darlington?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 1 Aug 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, “High Stell, 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.