Chapter Road, Darwen house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £89,975. Across the 14 years from 2003 to 2017 the median moved +41.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.0%.
Median price paid
£89,975
Change in cash, 2003–2017
+41.7%
Change in real terms
+2.0%
Median per m²
£1,528
HM Land Registry108 sales15 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Chapter Road, Darwen prices moved
The chart tracks the median Chapter Road, Darwen house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 3 | £66,975 | £148,716 |
| 2000s | 3 | £65,975 | £120,187 |
| 2010s | 1 | £136,000 | £191,760 |
The highest yearly median on record for Chapter Road, Darwen is £136,000 in 2017; the lowest is £50,000 in 1995. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £136,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +66.7% — about +2.35% 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: +41.7% in cash against +2.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 13 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 27 | 5 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 36 | 28 Aug 2025 | Detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 5 | 9 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| 23 | 6 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 35 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £193,000 | £197,196 |
| 46 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £289,950 | £305,097 |
| 7 | 8 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 65 | 5 Aug 2022 | Detached | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 8 | 28 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| 27 | 21 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 36 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £209,950 | £265,259 |
| 81 | 18 Jun 2021 | Detached | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 10 | 19 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 41 | 24 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £161,000 | £208,457 |
| 15 | 14 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £148,898 |
| 35 | 22 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £147,500 | £192,927 |
| 67 | 28 Jun 2019 | Detached | £195,000 | £255,056 |
| 23 | 14 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £154,000 | £201,429 |
| 47 | 20 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £176,577 |
| 55 | 21 Sep 2018 | Detached | £203,000 | £270,539 |
| 75 | 11 Apr 2018 | Detached | £182,000 | £242,552 |
| 81 | 16 Jan 2018 | Detached | £205,000 | £273,204 |
| 63 | 21 Jul 2017 | Detached | £210,000 | £285,811 |
| 61 | 21 Jul 2017 | Detached | £205,000 | £279,006 |
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 Chapter Road, Darwen values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Chapter Road | £54,950 (1995) | £200,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 27 Chapter Road | £160,000 (2022) | £175,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -1.4% |
| 36 Chapter Road | £75,500 (1997) | £265,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 23 Chapter Road | £90,000 (2005) | £210,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 35 Chapter Road | £54,200 (1996) | £193,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 46 Chapter Road | £71,500 (1996) | £289,950 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 65 Chapter Road | £69,950 (1997) | £225,000 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.3% |
| 81 Chapter Road | £71,395 (1996) | £250,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +2.9% |
| 41 Chapter Road | £47,950 (1995) | £161,000 (2020) | +5.0% | +2.7% |
| 15 Chapter Road | £59,950 (2002) | £115,000 (2020) | +3.7% | +1.4% |
| 67 Chapter Road | £69,950 (1996) | £195,000 (2019) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 55 Chapter Road | £74,000 (1997) | £203,000 (2018) | +4.9% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chapter Road, Darwen 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 | 59 | 54.6% | £84,950 | £11,600 – £289,950 |
| Semi-detached | 49 | 45.4% | £96,000 | £20,000 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Chapter Road, Darwen
43 of the sales on record are leasehold and 65 freehold — 39.8% 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 £94,500 and the median freehold sale £86,000 — a gap of -9.0%. 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 | 43 | 39.8% | £94,500 |
| Freehold | 65 | 60.2% | £86,000 |
| New build | 25 | 23.1% | £70,450 |
| Existing home | 83 | 76.9% | £128,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.0%. 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 Chapter Road, Darwen
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Blackburn with Darwen, 39.5% of 76,679 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 456 | 0.6% |
| B | 6,799 | 8.9% |
| C | 23,070 | 30.1% |
| D | 30,945 | 40.4% |
| E | 11,870 | 15.5% |
| F | 2,738 | 3.6% |
| G | 801 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Blackburn with Darwen at £712 a month as of Jun 2026 — £533 for a one-bedroom home and £779 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £89,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.50% 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 BB3, 218 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 95 violent, 4 burglary, 25 vehicle-related and 28 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 154,738 residents the 2021 census counted in Blackburn with Darwen, that is 1.41 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 Chapter Road, Darwen
The 2021 census counted 154,738 residents in Blackburn with Darwen across 58,767 households. 61.0% of those households own their home and 38.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a BB3 postcode: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darwen Vale High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,039 |
| Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,036 |
| Avondale Primary School | Primary | Community school | 400 |
| Lower Darwen Primary School | Primary | Community school | 382 |
| Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio | Secondary | Studio schools | 275 |
| Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 240 |
| Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 237 |
| Ashleigh Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 220 |
| Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Darwen Rail Station | Rail | 0.1 km |
| Cherry Tree Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Blackburn Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Entwistle Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Chapter Road, Darwen compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chapter Road, Darwen sits below that national figure — -42.9%.
Within Darwen the street ranks 271 of 550 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £77,000 (+16.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,528 per square metre, across 15 of the 108 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 £11,600 to £289,950. 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.
Chapter Road, Darwen sits in Blackburn with Darwen, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Blackburn with Darwen at 4.7 times median local earnings of £36,223 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
- Blackburn Road£54,500 median
- Olive Lane£46,000 median
- Marsh House Lane£79,975 median
- Harwood Street£67,250 median
- Bolton Road£79,975 median
- Cemetery Road£76,950 median
- Avondale Road£83,800 median
- Delphinium Way£109,500 median
- Aintree Drive£90,750 median
- Lynwood Avenue£72,250 median
- Hindle Street£52,000 median
- Spring Vale Garden Village£105,000 median
- Earnsdale Road£115,000 median
- Sudell Road£55,000 median
- Gillibrand Street£45,000 median
- Sandy Lane£110,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 67 Chapter Road5 sales
- 81 Chapter Road4 sales
- 75 Chapter Road4 sales
- 13 Chapter Road4 sales
- 28 Chapter Road3 sales
- 36 Chapter Road3 sales
- 23 Chapter Road3 sales
- 35 Chapter Road3 sales
- 46 Chapter Road3 sales
- 65 Chapter Road3 sales
- 15 Chapter Road3 sales
- 55 Chapter Road3 sales
- 61 Chapter Road3 sales
- 63 Chapter Road3 sales
- 9 Chapter Road3 sales
- 40 Chapter Road3 sales
- 77 Chapter Road3 sales
- 27 Chapter Road2 sales
- 41 Chapter Road2 sales
- 11 Chapter Road2 sales
- 71 Chapter Road2 sales
- 37 Chapter Road2 sales
- 57 Chapter Road2 sales
- 53 Chapter Road2 sales
Back to Darwen house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Chapter Road, Darwen?
The median price paid in Chapter Road, Darwen across every sale on the register is £89,975. 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 Chapter Road, Darwen?
108 sales are on record for Chapter Road, Darwen, the most recent completing on 13 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Chapter Road, Darwen house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +41.7% between 2003 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Chapter Road, Darwen house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £136,000, set in 2017. 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 Chapter Road, Darwen?
£1,528 per square metre, from the 15 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 13 Mar 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, “Chapter Road, Darwen 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.