Preston Street, Darwen house prices are built from 91 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £43,500. Across the 11 years from 2006 to 2017 the median moved -9.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -30.5%.
Median price paid
£43,500
Change in cash, 2006–2017
-9.1%
Change in real terms
-30.5%
Median per m²
£575
HM Land Registry91 sales38 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Preston Street, Darwen prices moved
The chart tracks the median Preston Street, 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 | 2 | £17,000 | £37,748 |
| 2000s | 4 | £43,000 | £78,333 |
| 2010s | 1 | £60,000 | £84,600 |
The highest yearly median on record for Preston Street, Darwen is £66,000 in 2006; the lowest is £17,000 in 1999. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £24,225 to £60,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £53,791, so the real change over the whole record is +51.8% — about +1.92% 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: -9.1% in cash against -30.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 2 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £72,000 | £72,000 |
| 45 | 8 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £97,500 | £99,620 |
| 15 | 26 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £77,000 | £78,674 |
| 45 | 22 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £60,000 | £64,828 |
| 32 | 31 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £80,000 | £86,437 |
| 22 | 28 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £80,000 | £86,437 |
| 43 | 29 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £89,999 | £97,240 |
| 34 | 7 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £78,000 | £90,370 |
| 40 | 24 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £82,500 | £104,234 |
| 23 | 2 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £47,500 | £61,501 |
| 7 | 11 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £46,000 | £60,167 |
| 28 | 23 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £55,000 | £71,939 |
| 18 | 25 May 2018 | Terraced | £59,950 | £79,896 |
| 32 | 17 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £43,500 | £59,204 |
| 40 | 30 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £60,000 | £81,660 |
| 30 | 20 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £62,000 | £84,382 |
| 30 | 26 May 2017 | Terraced | £65,000 | £88,465 |
| 44 | 9 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £43,500 | £59,204 |
| 20 | 8 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £51,000 | £71,198 |
| 14 | 2 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £42,500 | £59,332 |
| 33 | 5 May 2016 | Terraced | £33,500 | £46,767 |
| 11 | 1 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £33,000 | £46,069 |
| 38 | 21 Aug 2015 | Terraced | £45,000 | £63,450 |
| 30 | 10 Apr 2015 | Terraced | £50,000 | £70,500 |
| 11a | 29 Aug 2014 | Terraced | £50,000 | £71,719 |
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 Preston Street, Darwen values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 Preston Street | £23,950 (1995) | £72,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +1.0% |
| 45 Preston Street | £60,000 (2023) | £97,500 (2025) | +27.5% | +24.0% |
| 15 Preston Street | £27,000 (1998) | £77,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 32 Preston Street | £26,750 (2002) | £80,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.5% |
| 22 Preston Street | £45,000 (2013) | £80,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +2.8% |
| 43 Preston Street | £25,950 (1996) | £89,999 (2023) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 34 Preston Street | £56,000 (2014) | £78,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 40 Preston Street | £60,000 (2017) | £82,500 (2021) | +8.3% | +6.3% |
| 7 Preston Street | £27,500 (1999) | £46,000 (2019) | +2.6% | +0.4% |
| 30 Preston Street | £45,000 (2011) | £62,000 (2017) | +5.5% | +3.4% |
| 44 Preston Street | £17,000 (1998) | £43,500 (2017) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 20 Preston Street | £44,000 (2004) | £51,000 (2016) | +1.2% | -1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Preston Street, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 90 | 98.9% | £43,500 | £8,000 – £97,500 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 1.1% | £43,000 | £43,000 – £43,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Preston Street, Darwen
91 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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 | 91 | 100.0% | £43,500 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
A further 8 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 Preston Street, 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 £43,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 19.64% 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 Preston Street, 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 Preston Street, Darwen compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Preston Street, Darwen sits below that national figure — -72.4%.
Within Darwen the street ranks 493 of 550 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £77,000 (-43.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £575 per square metre, across 38 of the 91 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 £97,500. 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.
Preston Street, 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
- 7 Preston Street6 sales
- 14 Preston Street5 sales
- 15 Preston Street4 sales
- 30 Preston Street4 sales
- 33 Preston Street4 sales
- 1 Preston Street4 sales
- 29 Preston Street4 sales
- 5 Preston Street4 sales
- 35 Preston Street3 sales
- 32 Preston Street3 sales
- 44 Preston Street3 sales
- 20 Preston Street3 sales
- 11 Preston Street3 sales
- 4 Preston Street3 sales
- 37 Preston Street3 sales
- 42 Preston Street3 sales
- 24 Preston Street3 sales
- 45 Preston Street2 sales
- 22 Preston Street2 sales
- 43 Preston Street2 sales
- 34 Preston Street2 sales
- 40 Preston Street2 sales
- 12 Preston Street2 sales
- 6 Preston Street2 sales
Back to Darwen house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Preston Street, Darwen?
The median price paid in Preston Street, Darwen across every sale on the register is £43,500. 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 Preston Street, Darwen?
91 sales are on record for Preston Street, Darwen, the most recent completing on 2 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Preston Street, Darwen house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -9.1% between 2006 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -30.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Preston Street, Darwen house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £66,000, set in 2006. 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 Preston Street, Darwen?
£575 per square metre, from the 38 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 2 Apr 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, “Preston Street, 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.