The Martlets, Lewes house prices are built from 75 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £163,500. Across the 22 years from 1997 to 2019 the median moved +224.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +100.2%.
Median price paid
£163,500
Change in cash, 1997–2019
+224.6%
Change in real terms
+100.2%
Median per m²
£3,218
HM Land Registry75 sales3 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jan 2026
Section 01
How The Martlets, Lewes prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Martlets, Lewes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2019. 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 | 2 | £74,950 | £166,424 |
| 2010s | 2 | £250,000 | £352,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Martlets, Lewes is £272,500 in 2019; the lowest is £74,950 in 1996. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £74,950 to £272,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £162,584, so the real change over the whole record is +119.2% — about +3.47% 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: +224.6% in cash against +100.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 29 Jan 2026 | Detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| 16 | 30 May 2025 | Terraced | £515,000 | £526,196 |
| 4 | 11 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £437,000 | £506,302 |
| 13 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £385,000 | £486,425 |
| 22 | 12 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £272,500 | £356,424 |
| 21 | 6 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £337,500 | £441,442 |
| 11 | 23 Jul 2019 | Detached | £358,000 | £468,256 |
| 2 | 7 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £267,500 | £349,884 |
| 4d | 18 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £194,000 | £253,748 |
| 6 | 30 Oct 2018 | Detached | £358,000 | £477,108 |
| 6 | 26 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £300,000 | £399,811 |
| 10 | 15 May 2017 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £496,766 |
| 25 | 10 Nov 2016 | Detached | £330,000 | £460,693 |
| 5 | 8 Jul 2016 | Detached | £290,000 | £404,851 |
| 15 | 20 Nov 2015 | Terraced | £325,000 | £458,250 |
| 4d | 6 Jul 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £169,950 | £239,630 |
| 17 | 1 Jun 2015 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 22 | 24 Apr 2015 | Terraced | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 11 | 12 Feb 2015 | Detached | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 2 | 6 Dec 2013 | Semi-detached | £212,500 | £309,850 |
| 4 | 15 Nov 2013 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £371,820 |
| 7 | 30 Oct 2013 | Detached | £320,000 | £466,598 |
| 1 | 26 Jun 2013 | Semi-detached | £187,500 | £273,397 |
| 11 | 2 Jul 2012 | Detached | £245,000 | £365,943 |
| 25 | 15 Apr 2011 | Detached | £245,000 | £375,489 |
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 The Martlets, Lewes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 the Martlets | £91,500 (1997) | £475,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 16 the Martlets | £66,950 (1997) | £515,000 (2025) | +7.6% | +4.8% |
| 4 the Martlets | £89,950 (1997) | £437,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 13 the Martlets | £200,000 (2008) | £385,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.9% |
| 22 the Martlets | £62,950 (1996) | £272,500 (2019) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
| 21 the Martlets | £74,950 (1996) | £337,500 (2019) | +6.8% | +4.4% |
| 11 the Martlets | £84,950 (1997) | £358,000 (2019) | +6.8% | +4.4% |
| 2 the Martlets | £69,950 (1997) | £267,500 (2019) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 4D the Martlets | £169,950 (2015) | £194,000 (2019) | +3.4% | +1.4% |
| 6 the Martlets | £210,000 (2007) | £358,000 (2018) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 10 the Martlets | £78,500 (1997) | £365,000 (2017) | +8.0% | +5.6% |
| 25 the Martlets | £95,000 (1997) | £330,000 (2016) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Martlets, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 29 | 38.7% | £149,658 | £66,950 – £437,000 |
| Terraced | 23 | 30.7% | £189,995 | £58,500 – £515,000 |
| Detached | 21 | 28.0% | £226,000 | £23,000 – £475,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 2.7% | £169,950 | £169,950 – £194,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Martlets, Lewes
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 freehold — 2.7% 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 £181,975 and the median freehold sale £157,500 — a gap of -13.4%. 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 | 2 | 2.7% | £181,975 |
| Freehold | 73 | 97.3% | £157,500 |
| New build | 19 | 25.3% | £78,500 |
| Existing home | 56 | 74.7% | £211,250 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -62.8%. 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 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 The Martlets, 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 £163,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.71% 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 The Martlets, 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 The Martlets, Lewes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Martlets, Lewes sits above that national figure — +3.8%.
Within Lewes the street ranks 493 of 535 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £267,500 (-38.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,218 per square metre, across 3 of the 75 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 £23,000 to £515,000. 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.
The Martlets, 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
- 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 22 the Martlets6 sales
- 11 the Martlets6 sales
- 2 the Martlets5 sales
- 25 the Martlets5 sales
- 17 the Martlets5 sales
- 16 the Martlets4 sales
- 4 the Martlets4 sales
- 15 the Martlets4 sales
- 21 the Martlets3 sales
- 6 the Martlets3 sales
- 9 the Martlets3 sales
- 8 the Martlets2 sales
- 13 the Martlets2 sales
- 4D the Martlets2 sales
- 10 the Martlets2 sales
- 5 the Martlets2 sales
- 7 the Martlets2 sales
- 1 the Martlets2 sales
- 24 the Martlets2 sales
- 12 the Martlets2 sales
- 26 the Martlets2 sales
- 18 the Martlets2 sales
Back to Lewes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Martlets, Lewes?
The median price paid in The Martlets, Lewes across every sale on the register is £163,500. 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 The Martlets, Lewes?
75 sales are on record for The Martlets, Lewes, the most recent completing on 29 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Martlets, Lewes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +224.6% between 1997 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +100.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Martlets, Lewes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £272,500, set in 2019. 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 The Martlets, Lewes?
£3,218 per square metre, from the 3 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 29 Jan 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, “The Martlets, 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.