Thistle Drive, Kettering house prices are built from 197 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2005 and the most recent on 26 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £174,995. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +58.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +15.1%.
Median price paid
£174,995
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+58.9%
Change in real terms
+15.1%
HM Land Registry197 salesLatest sale 26 May 2026
Section 01
How Thistle Drive, Kettering prices moved
The chart tracks the median Thistle Drive, Kettering house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2005 to 2025. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | £164,951 | £300,492 |
| 2010s | 10 | £174,475 | £246,010 |
| 2020s | 4 | £235,000 | £240,109 |
The highest yearly median on record for Thistle Drive, Kettering is £253,000 in 2025; the lowest is £129,995 in 2005. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £129,995 to £253,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £236,813, so the real change over the whole record is +9.2% — about +0.44% 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: +58.9% in cash against +15.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129 | 26 May 2026 | Detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 151 | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 6 | 16 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 127 | 17 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £253,000 | £258,500 |
| 23 | 21 Nov 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 27 | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 22 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £246,000 | £251,348 |
| 64 | 28 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £95,000 | £97,065 |
| 28 | 15 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 84 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 66 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £97,500 | £102,593 |
| 56 | 20 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £237,500 | £256,609 |
| 12 | 25 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £124,000 | £133,977 |
| 6 | 31 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 54 | 9 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 26 | 31 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| 10 | 2 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 82 | 14 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £107,500 | £124,548 |
| 20 | 16 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 11 | 12 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 48 | 30 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| 52 | 6 May 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 31 | 29 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 108 | 6 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £239,995 | £303,219 |
| 133 | 2 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £199,995 | £252,682 |
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 Thistle Drive, Kettering values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129 Thistle Drive | £180,000 (2012) | £330,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 151 Thistle Drive | £174,995 (2008) | £255,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 6 Thistle Drive | £126,500 (2005) | £145,000 (2026) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| 127 Thistle Drive | £164,995 (2008) | £253,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 23 Thistle Drive | £214,995 (2012) | £350,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 27 Thistle Drive | £228,995 (2011) | £325,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 22 Thistle Drive | £179,995 (2005) | £246,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 64 Thistle Drive | £93,921 (2006) | £95,000 (2025) | +0.1% | -2.8% |
| 28 Thistle Drive | £213,495 (2006) | £300,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 84 Thistle Drive | £111,287 (2006) | £115,000 (2024) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| 66 Thistle Drive | £93,921 (2006) | £97,500 (2024) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| 56 Thistle Drive | £166,000 (2006) | £237,500 (2023) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thistle Drive, Kettering 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 | 75 | 38.1% | £132,000 | £59,000 – £270,000 |
| Semi-detached | 67 | 34.0% | £179,995 | £65,000 – £300,000 |
| Detached | 38 | 19.3% | £225,000 | £151,500 – £350,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 17 | 8.6% | £126,500 | £60,000 – £145,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Thistle Drive, Kettering
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 158 freehold — 19.8% 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 £85,000 and the median freehold sale £186,500 — a gap of +119.4%. 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 | 39 | 19.8% | £85,000 |
| Freehold | 158 | 80.2% | £186,500 |
| New build | 76 | 38.6% | £176,495 |
| Existing home | 121 | 61.4% | £169,995 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +3.8%. 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 7 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 Thistle Drive, Kettering
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Northamptonshire, 51.7% of 169,866 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,840 | 1.1% |
| B | 28,472 | 16.8% |
| C | 57,534 | 33.9% |
| D | 56,985 | 33.5% |
| E | 19,365 | 11.4% |
| F | 4,500 | 2.6% |
| G | 1,170 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Northamptonshire at £985 a month as of Jun 2026 — £679 for a one-bedroom home and £1,060 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £174,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.75% 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 NN14, 146 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 63 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 359,525 residents the 2021 census counted in North Northamptonshire, that is 0.41 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 Thistle Drive, Kettering
The 2021 census counted 359,525 residents in North Northamptonshire across 148,918 households. 66.2% of those households own their home and 33.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a NN14 postcode: 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montsaye Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,017 |
| Thrapston Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 468 |
| Loatlands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 446 |
| Rothwell Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 315 |
| Havelock Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 306 |
| Mawsley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 281 |
| Rothwell Victoria Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 263 |
| Broughton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 200 |
| Geddington Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 197 |
| Havelock Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 175 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kettering Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Corby Rail Station | Rail | 8.6 km |
| Wellingborough Rail Station | Rail | 12.1 km |
| Market Harborough Rail Station | Rail | 16.1 km |
Section 09
How Thistle Drive, Kettering compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thistle Drive, Kettering sits above that national figure — +11.1%.
Within Kettering the street ranks 602 of 1505 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £136,950 (+27.8%).
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 £59,000 to £350,000. 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.
Thistle Drive, Kettering sits in North Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Northamptonshire at 7.3 times median local earnings of £35,745 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
- Station Road£130,000 median
- Main Street£249,950 median
- Rushton Road£133,000 median
- Kettering Road£160,000 median
- Church Street£238,000 median
- Manor Road£264,950 median
- Harrington Road£150,000 median
- Stamford Road£120,000 median
- Brambleside£113,000 median
- Queen Street£109,750 median
- Ironwood Avenue£204,623 median
- Spencer Street£105,000 median
- New Street£81,500 median
- Dunkirk Avenue£157,250 median
- Old Gorse Way£245,000 median
- Midland Road£163,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 11 Thistle Drive6 sales
- 62 Thistle Drive6 sales
- 64 Thistle Drive5 sales
- 28 Thistle Drive5 sales
- 82 Thistle Drive5 sales
- 66 Thistle Drive4 sales
- 84 Thistle Drive4 sales
- 13 Thistle Drive4 sales
- 102 Thistle Drive4 sales
- 17 Thistle Drive4 sales
- 111 Thistle Drive4 sales
- 129 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 6 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 127 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 56 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 12 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 54 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 20 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 48 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 1 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 30 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 3 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 139 Thistle Drive3 sales
- 5 Thistle Drive3 sales
Back to Kettering house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Thistle Drive, Kettering?
The median price paid in Thistle Drive, Kettering across every sale on the register is £174,995. 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 Thistle Drive, Kettering?
197 sales are on record for Thistle Drive, Kettering, the most recent completing on 26 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Thistle Drive, Kettering house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +58.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +15.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Thistle Drive, Kettering house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £253,000, set in 2025. 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 Thistle Drive, Kettering?
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 26 May 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, “Thistle Drive, Kettering 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.