Rectory Road, Dorchester house prices are built from 90 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 31 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £263,500. Across the 17 years from 1998 to 2015 the median moved +170.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +83.6%.
Median price paid
£263,500
Change in cash, 1998–2015
+170.1%
Change in real terms
+83.6%
HM Land Registry90 salesLatest sale 31 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Rectory Road, Dorchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rectory Road, Dorchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2015. 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 | £111,250 | £247,028 |
| 2000s | 1 | £250,000 | £455,426 |
| 2010s | 1 | £345,000 | £486,450 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rectory Road, Dorchester is £345,000 in 2015; the lowest is £111,250 in 1997. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £111,250 to £345,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £235,883, so the real change over the whole record is +106.2% — about +4.10% 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: +170.1% in cash against +83.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Garden House, 3 | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| Harriots Cottage | 22 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £367,500 | £375,489 |
| The Old School House | 15 Aug 2025 | Detached | £430,000 | £439,348 |
| Little Puddle Cottage | 19 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| 8 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| West Lane Cottage | 27 Nov 2023 | Detached | £352,500 | £380,862 |
| 14 | 30 Mar 2022 | Detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 3 | 26 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 1 | 20 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £407,851 |
| Little Puddle Cottage | 8 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £485,537 |
| West Lane Cottage | 31 Jan 2020 | Detached | £274,500 | £355,413 |
| 2 | 20 May 2019 | Detached | £296,200 | £387,423 |
| 3 | 7 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £353,154 |
| 18 | 6 Mar 2019 | Detached | £685,000 | £895,965 |
| 8a | 1 Mar 2019 | Detached | £348,000 | £455,176 |
| The Barn | 14 Dec 2018 | Detached | £345,000 | £459,783 |
| 5 | 25 Oct 2018 | Detached | £412,500 | £549,740 |
| Harriots Cottage | 28 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £262,000 | £349,168 |
| Little Puddle Cottage | 2 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £476,351 |
| 20 | 25 Jul 2017 | Detached | £380,000 | £517,181 |
| Billen Cottage, 2b | 3 May 2016 | Detached | £350,000 | £488,614 |
| Little Puddle Cottage | 30 Sep 2015 | Semi-detached | £314,000 | £442,740 |
| 2 | 4 Sep 2015 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £401,850 |
| Riverside, 2a | 15 Jul 2015 | Detached | £340,000 | £479,400 |
| 5 | 6 Jul 2015 | Detached | £350,000 | £493,500 |
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 Rectory Road, Dorchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HARRIOTS COTTAGE Rectory Road | £111,250 (1997) | £367,500 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Rectory Road | £183,000 (2003) | £430,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| LITTLE PUDDLE COTTAGE Rectory Road | £104,000 (1997) | £425,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| WEST LANE COTTAGE Rectory Road | £90,000 (1999) | £352,500 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 14 Rectory Road | £447,500 (2015) | £550,000 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 3 Rectory Road | £80,000 (1998) | £320,000 (2021) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 1 Rectory Road | £81,000 (1995) | £315,000 (2020) | +5.6% | +3.3% |
| 2 Rectory Road | £219,000 (2002) | £296,200 (2019) | +1.8% | -0.5% |
| 18 Rectory Road | £350,000 (2010) | £685,000 (2019) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| THE BARN Rectory Road | £135,000 (1998) | £345,000 (2018) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 5 Rectory Road | £280,000 (2006) | £412,500 (2018) | +3.3% | +0.8% |
| BILLEN COTTAGE, 2B Rectory Road | £267,950 (2010) | £350,000 (2016) | +4.6% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rectory Road, Dorchester 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 | 65.6% | £280,000 | £69,000 – £985,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 34.4% | £221,000 | £25,000 – £425,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rectory Road, Dorchester
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 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 | 90 | 100.0% | £263,500 |
| New build | 4 | 4.4% | £185,000 |
| Existing home | 86 | 95.6% | £266,475 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -30.6%. 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 2 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 Rectory Road, Dorchester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Dorset, 43.1% of 188,938 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,111 | 0.6% |
| B | 22,229 | 11.8% |
| C | 58,170 | 30.8% |
| D | 66,245 | 35.1% |
| E | 28,834 | 15.3% |
| F | 9,430 | 5.0% |
| G | 2,919 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Dorset at £1,046 a month as of Jun 2026 — £724 for a one-bedroom home and £1,178 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £263,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.76% 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 DT2, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.
Against the 379,579 residents the 2021 census counted in Dorset, that is 0.01 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 Rectory Road, Dorchester
The 2021 census counted 379,579 residents in Dorset across 169,261 households. 71.4% of those households own their home and 28.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
14 state and independent schools have a DT2 postcode: 12 primary, 1 middle deemed secondary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Church of England Middle School, Puddletown | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 441 |
| Dorset Studio School | Secondary | Studio schools | 332 |
| St Mary's Church of England First School, Charminster | Primary | Academy converter | 148 |
| Frome Valley CofE First School | Primary | Academy converter | 141 |
| Broadmayne First School | Primary | Community school | 139 |
| Maiden Newton, Greenford Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 137 |
| Puddletown Church of England First School | Primary | Academy converter | 134 |
| Thorner's Church of England School, Litton Cheney | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 115 |
| Buckland Newton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 110 |
| Cerne Abbas CofE VC First School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 77 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dorchester South Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Maiden Newton Rail Station | Rail | 9.0 km |
| Moreton (Dorset) Rail Station | Rail | 11.1 km |
| Upwey Rail Station | Rail | 11.3 km |
Section 09
How Rectory Road, Dorchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rectory Road, Dorchester sits above that national figure — +67.3%.
Within Dorchester the street ranks 274 of 759 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £215,000 (+22.6%).
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 £25,000 to £985,000. 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.
Rectory Road, Dorchester sits in Dorset, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dorset at 9.9 times median local earnings of £35,311 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
- High Street£194,000 median
- Dorchester Road£195,000 median
- Hawthorn Road£154,000 median
- Sherren Avenue£130,000 median
- Main Road£270,000 median
- North Street£223,750 median
- Deverel Road£216,500 median
- Butt Farm Close£160,000 median
- Church Lane£249,500 median
- School Drive£247,750 median
- Mill Street£138,250 median
- Back Lane£191,000 median
- Main Street£215,000 median
- Chestnut Road£190,000 median
- Dick O Th Banks Road£210,000 median
- Yalbury Lane£114,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1 Rectory Road7 sales
- LITTLE PUDDLE COTTAGE Rectory Road6 sales
- WEST LANE COTTAGE Rectory Road6 sales
- 3 Rectory Road5 sales
- 10 Rectory Road5 sales
- HAPPINESS COTTAGE, 12 Rectory Road5 sales
- HARRIOTS COTTAGE Rectory Road4 sales
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Rectory Road4 sales
- 9 Rectory Road4 sales
- 2 Rectory Road3 sales
- THE BARN Rectory Road3 sales
- 5 Rectory Road3 sales
- RIVERSIDE, 2A Rectory Road3 sales
- RUSPER HOUSE Rectory Road3 sales
- 14 Rectory Road2 sales
- 18 Rectory Road2 sales
- BILLEN COTTAGE, 2B Rectory Road2 sales
- 13 Rectory Road2 sales
- 19 Rectory Road2 sales
- 4 Rectory Road2 sales
- 6 Rectory Road2 sales
- 1, DENCHES COTTAGES Rectory Road2 sales
- 8B Rectory Road2 sales
Back to Dorchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rectory Road, Dorchester?
The median price paid in Rectory Road, Dorchester across every sale on the register is £263,500. 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 Rectory Road, Dorchester?
90 sales are on record for Rectory Road, Dorchester, the most recent completing on 31 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rectory Road, Dorchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +170.1% between 1998 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +83.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rectory Road, Dorchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £345,000, set in 2015. 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 Rectory Road, Dorchester?
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 31 Oct 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, “Rectory Road, Dorchester 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.