Lower Lane, High Peak house prices are built from 105 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,400. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +93.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +17.1%.
Median price paid
£157,400
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+93.5%
Change in real terms
+17.1%
HM Land Registry105 salesLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Lower Lane, High Peak prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Lane, High Peak house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £47,000 | £104,362 |
| 2000s | 4 | £112,475 | £204,896 |
| 2010s | 1 | £207,500 | £292,575 |
| 2020s | 1 | £329,000 | £336,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Lane, High Peak is £329,000 in 2024; the lowest is £45,000 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £53,200 to £329,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £118,129, so the real change over the whole record is +193.1% — about +3.78% 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: +93.5% in cash against +17.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £259,000 | £259,000 |
| 80 | 2 May 2025 | Detached | £430,000 | £439,348 |
| 64 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £256,190 | £269,573 |
| 90 | 27 Aug 2024 | Detached | £632,500 | £665,541 |
| 50 | 26 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £277,500 | £291,996 |
| 82 | 26 Apr 2024 | Detached | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| 26 | 27 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £329,000 | £346,187 |
| Dryden, 84 | 25 Oct 2023 | Detached | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 48 | 28 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| Lower Barn | 13 May 2022 | Detached | £522,000 | £604,782 |
| 37 | 4 Feb 2022 | Detached | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| 39 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £287,500 | £363,239 |
| 32 | 24 Sep 2021 | Detached | £450,000 | £568,548 |
| 50 | 27 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 18 | 15 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £297,796 |
| 53 | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £475,000 | £615,014 |
| 49 | 3 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £291,322 |
| 41 | 16 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 7 | 7 Aug 2019 | Detached | £545,000 | £712,848 |
| 41 | 24 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £145,000 | £189,657 |
| 64 | 28 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £185,000 | £241,976 |
| 13 | 23 Nov 2018 | Detached | £278,500 | £371,158 |
| 58 | 31 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £293,195 |
| 86 | 22 Feb 2018 | Detached | £332,500 | £443,124 |
| 66 | 20 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £180,000 | £244,981 |
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 Lower Lane, High Peak values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 Lower Lane | £115,000 (2016) | £259,000 (2026) | +8.5% | +4.9% |
| 80 Lower Lane | £217,500 (2009) | £430,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| 64 Lower Lane | £147,500 (2013) | £256,190 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 90 Lower Lane | £371,500 (2010) | £632,500 (2024) | +3.9% | +0.8% |
| 50 Lower Lane | £42,500 (1997) | £277,500 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
| 82 Lower Lane | £250,000 (2015) | £500,000 (2024) | +8.0% | +4.6% |
| LOWER BARN Lower Lane | £149,000 (2000) | £522,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.3% |
| 37 Lower Lane | £117,700 (1999) | £575,000 (2022) | +7.1% | +4.5% |
| 39 Lower Lane | £127,000 (2006) | £287,500 (2021) | +5.6% | +3.2% |
| 18 Lower Lane | £116,000 (2006) | £230,000 (2020) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 53 Lower Lane | £195,000 (2001) | £475,000 (2020) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 41 Lower Lane | £44,000 (1995) | £160,000 (2019) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Lane, High Peak 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 | 43 | 41.0% | £113,000 | £36,500 – £329,000 |
| Detached | 33 | 31.4% | £278,500 | £45,000 – £632,500 |
| Semi-detached | 29 | 27.6% | £147,000 | £36,000 – £259,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Lane, High Peak
15 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 14.3% 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 £160,000 and the median freehold sale £156,200 — a gap of -2.4%. 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 | 15 | 14.3% | £160,000 |
| Freehold | 90 | 85.7% | £156,200 |
A further 4 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 Lower Lane, High Peak
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire East, 44.0% of 197,366 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,489 | 0.8% |
| B | 29,554 | 15.0% |
| C | 55,700 | 28.2% |
| D | 73,725 | 37.4% |
| E | 26,906 | 13.6% |
| F | 7,570 | 3.8% |
| G | 2,422 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire East at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £694 for a one-bedroom home and £1,102 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £157,400 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.49% 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 SK23, 14 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 10 violent, 1 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 11.9 times quieter.
Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.04 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 Lower Lane, High Peak
The 2021 census counted 398,772 residents in Cheshire East across 174,854 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a SK23 postcode: 8 primary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel-en-le-Frith High School | Secondary | Community school | 941 |
| Chapel-en-le-Frith CofE VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 495 |
| Chinley Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 234 |
| Taxal and Fernilee CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 192 |
| Whaley Bridge Primary School | Primary | Community school | 142 |
| Buxworth Primary School | Primary | Community school | 104 |
| Furness Vale Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 72 |
| Kettleshulme St James CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 66 |
| Combs Infant School | Primary | Community school | 14 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chinley Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Whaley Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Chapel-en-le-Frith Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Furness Vale Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
Section 09
How Lower Lane, High Peak compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Lane, High Peak sits below that national figure — -0.1%.
Within High Peak the street ranks 249 of 475 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £149,500 (+5.3%).
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 £36,000 to £632,500. 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.
Lower Lane, High Peak sits in Cheshire East, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire East at 7.6 times median local earnings of £39,459 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
- Buxton Road£124,475 median
- Hayfield Road£124,975 median
- Macclesfield Road£137,500 median
- Manchester Road£198,500 median
- Old Road£125,000 median
- Western Lane£126,000 median
- Rowton Grange Road£169,950 median
- Sovereign Way£209,498 median
- Danesway£122,000 median
- Eccles Road£233,000 median
- High Street£85,000 median
- Horse Fair Avenue£159,000 median
- Frith View£135,000 median
- Park Road£130,000 median
- Chapel Road£148,500 median
- Whaley Lane£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 41 Lower Lane8 sales
- 50 Lower Lane5 sales
- 58 Lower Lane5 sales
- 39 Lower Lane4 sales
- 52 Lower Lane4 sales
- 38 Lower Lane4 sales
- 2A Lower Lane4 sales
- 17 Lower Lane4 sales
- 40 Lower Lane4 sales
- 64 Lower Lane3 sales
- 37 Lower Lane3 sales
- 18 Lower Lane3 sales
- 66 Lower Lane3 sales
- 2B Lower Lane3 sales
- 60 Lower Lane2 sales
- 80 Lower Lane2 sales
- 90 Lower Lane2 sales
- 82 Lower Lane2 sales
- LOWER BARN Lower Lane2 sales
- 53 Lower Lane2 sales
- 13 Lower Lane2 sales
- 88 Lower Lane2 sales
- 5A Lower Lane2 sales
- THE BUNGALOW, 68A Lower Lane2 sales
Back to High Peak house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Lane, High Peak?
The median price paid in Lower Lane, High Peak across every sale on the register is £157,400. 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 Lower Lane, High Peak?
105 sales are on record for Lower Lane, High Peak, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Lane, High Peak house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +93.5% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +17.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Lane, High Peak house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £329,000, set in 2024. 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 Lower Lane, High Peak?
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 30 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, “Lower Lane, High Peak 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.