St John Street, Lewes house prices

St John Street, Lewes house prices are built from 70 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 3 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £269,162.

HM Land Registry70 sales17 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Oct 2025

There are too few years of sales in St John Street, Lewes to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.

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.

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 St John Street, Lewes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St John Street, Lewes is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 68 freehold — 2.9% 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 £193,750 and the median freehold sale £269,162 — a gap of +38.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +27.0%. 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 1 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.

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.

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 £269,162 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.90% 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 BN7, 192 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 48 violent, 3 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 58 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 99,905 residents the 2021 census counted in Lewes, that is 1.92 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.

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.

8 state and independent schools have a BN7 postcode: 6 primary, 1 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St John Street, Lewes sits above that national figure — +70.9%.

Within Lewes the street ranks 300 of 535 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £267,500 (+0.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,420 per square metre, across 17 of the 70 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 £45,000 to £630,000. 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.

St John Street, 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.

Streets nearby

• High Street£232,500 median
• Court Road£172,940 median
• South Street£267,000 median
• Western Road£270,000 median
• Cliffe High Street£140,000 median
• Spences Lane£137,075 median
• Station Street£120,000 median
• De Montfort Road£269,475 median
• Warren Drive£159,975 median
• Mountfield Road£178,000 median
• Malling Street£233,000 median
• Valence Road£230,000 median
• Highdown Road£259,000 median
• St Annes Crescent£419,500 median
• Winterbourne Close£200,000 median
• St Nicholas Lane£250,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 30 St John Street6 sales
• 34 St John Street5 sales
• 26 St John Street4 sales
• 37 St John Street4 sales
• 18C St John Street3 sales
• 45 St John Street3 sales
• 25 St John Street3 sales
• 24 St John Street3 sales
• 17 St John Street2 sales
• 31 St John Street2 sales
• 33 St John Street2 sales
• 35 St John Street2 sales
• 18 St John Street2 sales
• 23 St John Street2 sales
• 4, EARLS GARDEN St John Street2 sales
• 3, EARLS GARDEN St John Street2 sales
• 16A St John Street2 sales
• 20 St John Street2 sales
• 21 St John Street2 sales
• 27 St John Street2 sales
• 29 St John Street2 sales
• 41 St John Street2 sales

Back to Lewes house prices.

What is the average house price in St John Street, Lewes?

The median price paid in St John Street, Lewes across every sale on the register is £269,162. 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 St John Street, Lewes?

70 sales are on record for St John Street, Lewes, the most recent completing on 3 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were St John Street, Lewes house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £300,000, set in 2006. 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 St John Street, Lewes?

£4,420 per square metre, from the 17 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 3 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, “St John Street, 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.