Delves Close, Lewes house prices are built from 178 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £141,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved -15.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -37.7%.
Median price paid
£141,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
-15.1%
Change in real terms
-37.7%
Median per m²
£2,798
HM Land Registry178 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Delves Close, Lewes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Delves Close, Lewes 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 | £40,000 | £88,819 |
| 2000s | 9 | £120,000 | £218,605 |
| 2010s | 4 | £160,000 | £225,600 |
| 2020s | 3 | £200,000 | £204,348 |
The highest yearly median on record for Delves Close, Lewes is £206,250 in 2022; the lowest is £38,500 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £158,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,819, so the real change over the whole record is +88.1% — about +2.20% 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: -15.1% in cash against -37.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 7 Delves House West | 27 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| Flat 18 Delves House West | 6 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| Flat 43 Delves House East | 30 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £126,000 | £128,739 |
| Flat 51 Delves House East | 17 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| Flat 39 Delves House East | 9 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| Flat 42 Delves House East | 11 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £133,000 | £139,948 |
| Flat 47 Delves House East | 15 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| Flat 4 Delves House West | 16 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £165,728 |
| Flat 36 Delves House | 9 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| Flat 6 Delves House West | 2 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| Flat 8 Delves House West | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| Flat 31 Delves House | 16 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| Flat 18 Delves House West | 2 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| Flat 2 Delves House West | 5 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £162,069 |
| Flat 56 Delves House East | 17 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £194,643 |
| Flat 17 Delves House West | 11 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| Flat 23 Delves House West | 8 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| Flat 16 Delves House West | 17 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £232,500 | £269,371 |
| Flat 46 Delves House East | 10 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| Flat 1 Delves House West | 8 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| Flat 32 Delves House | 3 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | £229,946 |
| Flat 39 Delves House East | 4 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| Flat 30 Delves House | 24 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £157,930 |
| 8 | 17 Sep 2021 | Detached | £600,000 | £758,065 |
| Flat 53 Delves House East | 21 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £252,688 |
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 Delves Close, Lewes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 7 DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close | £52,000 (1996) | £245,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| FLAT 18 DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close | £39,500 (1997) | £175,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| FLAT 43 DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close | £41,000 (1999) | £126,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 51 DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close | £34,500 (1995) | £125,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 39 DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close | £57,000 (1999) | £225,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| FLAT 42 DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close | £113,500 (2007) | £133,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| FLAT 47 DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close | £95,000 (2002) | £160,000 (2024) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 4 DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close | £58,500 (2001) | £157,500 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| FLAT 36 DELVES HOUSE Delves Close | £102,000 (2005) | £115,000 (2024) | +0.6% | -2.2% |
| FLAT 6 DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close | £84,000 (2000) | £230,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| FLAT 8 DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close | £87,500 (2001) | £190,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 31 DELVES HOUSE Delves Close | £103,500 (2006) | £140,000 (2023) | +1.8% | -1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Delves Close, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 154 | 86.5% | £125,000 | £20,000 – £295,000 |
| Detached | 24 | 13.5% | £290,000 | £100,000 – £600,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Delves Close, Lewes
154 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24 freehold — 86.5% 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 £125,000 and the median freehold sale £295,000 — a gap of +136.0%. 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 | 154 | 86.5% | £125,000 |
| Freehold | 24 | 13.5% | £295,000 |
Section 07
Living in Delves Close, 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 £141,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.22% 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 Delves Close, 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 Delves Close, Lewes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Delves Close, Lewes sits below that national figure — -10.2%.
Within Lewes the street ranks 510 of 535 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £267,500 (-47.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,798 per square metre, across 50 of the 178 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 £20,000 to £600,000. 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.
Delves Close, 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
- 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
- Craig Meadows£293,750 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
- FLAT 9, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close9 sales
- FLAT 7, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close6 sales
- FLAT 39, DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close6 sales
- FLAT 18, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close5 sales
- FLAT 30, DELVES HOUSE Delves Close5 sales
- FLAT 19, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close5 sales
- FLAT 14, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close5 sales
- FLAT 4, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 8, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 2, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 17, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 32, DELVES HOUSE Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 11, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 50, DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 3, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close4 sales
- FLAT 43, DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 51, DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 42, DELVES HOUSE EAST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 6, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 16, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 1, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 15, DELVES HOUSE WEST Delves Close3 sales
- FLAT 28, DELVES HOUSE Delves Close3 sales
- 3 Delves Close3 sales
Back to Lewes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Delves Close, Lewes?
The median price paid in Delves Close, Lewes across every sale on the register is £141,500. 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 Delves Close, Lewes?
178 sales are on record for Delves Close, Lewes, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Delves Close, Lewes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -15.1% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -37.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Delves Close, Lewes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £206,250, set in 2022. 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 Delves Close, Lewes?
£2,798 per square metre, from the 50 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 27 Feb 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, “Delves Close, 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.