Craig Meadows, Lewes house prices are built from 84 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 18 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £293,750. Across the 9 years from 2006 to 2015 the median moved -28.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -43.4%.
Median price paid
£293,750
Change in cash, 2006–2015
-28.6%
Change in real terms
-43.4%
HM Land Registry84 salesLatest sale 18 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Craig Meadows, Lewes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Craig Meadows, Lewes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £279,950 | £509,986 |
| 2010s | 3 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Craig Meadows, Lewes is £300,000 in 2007; the lowest is £190,000 in 2014. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £279,950 to £200,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £498,396, so the real change over the whole record is -43.4% — about -6.13% 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: -28.6% in cash against -43.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 18 Dec 2025 | Detached | £567,500 | £579,837 |
| 3 | 20 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 8 | 13 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 9 | 21 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £441,940 |
| 44 | 21 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £360,000 | £417,091 |
| 32 | 14 Oct 2022 | Detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 29 | 11 Jul 2022 | Detached | £637,000 | £738,020 |
| 41 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £581,183 |
| 4 | 10 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £377,500 | £488,774 |
| 52 | 26 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £380,000 | £492,011 |
| 42 | 7 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £145,000 | £189,657 |
| 27 | 7 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £364,000 | £476,104 |
| 54 | 10 Sep 2018 | Semi-detached | £230,400 | £307,055 |
| 17 | 1 Jun 2018 | Detached | £467,500 | £623,039 |
| 60 | 8 Dec 2017 | Detached | £450,000 | £612,452 |
| 24 | 18 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £378,000 | £514,459 |
| 42 | 6 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £142,500 | £193,943 |
| 3 | 29 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £370,000 | £503,571 |
| 8 | 19 Oct 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £328,069 |
| 32 | 14 Oct 2016 | Detached | £390,000 | £544,455 |
| 31 | 7 Mar 2016 | Detached | £342,500 | £478,144 |
| 43 | 4 Dec 2015 | Detached | £512,000 | £721,920 |
| 14 | 23 Oct 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £267,900 |
| 44 | 19 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £178,750 | £252,038 |
| 33 | 12 Aug 2015 | Detached | £407,000 | £573,870 |
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 Craig Meadows, Lewes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Craig Meadows | £382,500 (2006) | £567,500 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 3 Craig Meadows | £260,000 (2007) | £400,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| 8 Craig Meadows | £180,000 (2010) | £240,000 (2024) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| 9 Craig Meadows | £279,950 (2006) | £420,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.7% |
| 44 Craig Meadows | £162,500 (2014) | £360,000 (2022) | +10.5% | +7.5% |
| 32 Craig Meadows | £250,000 (2006) | £495,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 29 Craig Meadows | £360,000 (2007) | £637,000 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| 41 Craig Meadows | £299,950 (2007) | £460,000 (2021) | +3.1% | +0.8% |
| 4 Craig Meadows | £285,000 (2006) | £377,500 (2020) | +2.0% | -0.3% |
| 42 Craig Meadows | £142,500 (2017) | £145,000 (2019) | +0.9% | -1.1% |
| 27 Craig Meadows | £285,000 (2006) | £364,000 (2019) | +1.9% | -0.5% |
| 54 Craig Meadows | £309,950 (2007) | £230,400 (2018) | -2.7% | -5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Craig Meadows, Lewes 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 | 32 | 38.1% | £399,950 | £180,000 – £637,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 31.0% | £289,950 | £190,000 – £460,000 |
| Terraced | 15 | 17.9% | £260,000 | £142,500 – £400,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 11 | 13.1% | £190,000 | £66,400 – £240,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Craig Meadows, Lewes
14 of the sales on record are leasehold and 70 freehold — 16.7% 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 £183,500 and the median freehold sale £314,975 — a gap of +71.6%. 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 | 14 | 16.7% | £183,500 |
| Freehold | 70 | 83.3% | £314,975 |
| New build | 9 | 10.7% | £250,000 |
| Existing home | 75 | 89.3% | £309,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -19.1%. 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 Craig Meadows, Lewes
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lewes, 42.2% of 49,257 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 292 | 0.6% |
| B | 5,294 | 10.7% |
| C | 15,189 | 30.8% |
| D | 18,836 | 38.2% |
| E | 7,179 | 14.6% |
| F | 1,948 | 4.0% |
| G | 519 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lewes at £1,323 a month as of Jun 2026 — £917 for a one-bedroom home and £1,495 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £293,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.40% 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.
No street-level crime was published for BN8 in Jun 2026. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Craig Meadows, Lewes
The 2021 census counted 99,905 residents in Lewes across 43,688 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a BN8 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chailey School | Secondary | Community school | 862 |
| King's Academy Ringmer | Secondary | Academy converter | 659 |
| Ringmer Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 359 |
| Newick Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 217 |
| Barcombe Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 132 |
| Chailey St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 104 |
| Chiddingly Primary School | Primary | Community school | 103 |
| Hamsey Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 99 |
| East Hoathly CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 73 |
| Laughton Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 69 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cooksbridge Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Lewes Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
| Uckfield Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Glynde Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
Section 09
How Craig Meadows, Lewes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Craig Meadows, Lewes sits above that national figure — +86.5%.
Within Lewes the street ranks 254 of 535 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £267,500 (+9.8%).
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 £66,400 to £637,000. 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.
Craig Meadows, Lewes sits in Lewes, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lewes at 9.7 times median local earnings of £39,798 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
- Lewes Road£287,500 median
- Station Road£292,500 median
- Delves Close£141,500 median
- Shepherds Way£189,975 median
- Mill Lane£331,250 median
- Haywards Heath Road£321,500 median
- The Street£510,000 median
- Springett Avenue£205,000 median
- Church Lane£410,000 median
- Mill Road£283,462 median
- Allington Road£490,000 median
- New Heritage Way£421,250 median
- Oldaker Road£266,000 median
- Newick Drive£249,950 median
- Lower Station Road£547,500 median
- Christie Avenue£260,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 29 Craig Meadows4 sales
- 19 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 3 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 8 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 44 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 32 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 41 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 27 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 17 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 24 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 43 Craig Meadows3 sales
- 9 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 4 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 42 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 54 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 31 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 14 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 33 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 58 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 12 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 2 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 39 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 28 Craig Meadows2 sales
- 48 Craig Meadows2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Craig Meadows, Lewes?
The median price paid in Craig Meadows, Lewes across every sale on the register is £293,750. 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 Craig Meadows, Lewes?
84 sales are on record for Craig Meadows, Lewes, the most recent completing on 18 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Craig Meadows, Lewes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -28.6% between 2006 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -43.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Craig Meadows, Lewes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £300,000, set in 2007. 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 Craig Meadows, Lewes?
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 18 Dec 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, “Craig Meadows, Lewes 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.