High Street, Lydney house prices are built from 245 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £144,700. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +37.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.6%.
Median price paid
£144,700
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+37.1%
Change in real terms
+1.6%
Median per m²
£1,113
HM Land Registry245 sales23 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Lydney prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Lydney house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. 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 | £43,500 | £96,591 |
| 2000s | 10 | £145,000 | £264,147 |
| 2010s | 7 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 3 | £272,000 | £277,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Lydney is £300,000 in 2022; the lowest is £26,000 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £26,000 to £240,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £56,400, so the real change over the whole record is +359.8% — about +5.81% 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: +37.1% in cash against +1.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torretta | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £334,000 | £334,000 |
| 34 | 4 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| Yorkleigh | 10 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 27 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 18 | 7 Oct 2024 | Detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| Dare N Dor | 18 Sep 2024 | Detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| Green Meadows | 7 Mar 2024 | Detached | £750,000 | £789,179 |
| 2 Vine Hall | 29 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £101,000 | £109,126 |
| Holmdale | 5 May 2023 | Detached | £460,000 | £497,011 |
| Flat 23c | 30 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £74,000 | £79,954 |
| 30 | 6 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £317,500 | £343,046 |
| Barn Cottage | 6 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| 83 | 20 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £540,000 | £625,637 |
| 33 | 15 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| Castle View | 13 Jun 2022 | Detached | £620,000 | £718,324 |
| Flat 4 the Lodge | 27 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 53 | 6 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| Leicester House | 28 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| Rosehill | 24 Sep 2021 | Detached | £450,000 | £568,548 |
| Foxley | 17 Sep 2021 | Detached | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| Yorkleigh | 23 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 95 | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| 38 | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £335,000 | £423,253 |
| 30 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 2 Mews Cottages | 18 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £126,500 | £159,825 |
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 High Street, Lydney values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TORRETTA High Street | £79,000 (1998) | £334,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 34 High Street | £99,000 (2008) | £300,000 (2025) | +6.7% | +3.7% |
| YORKLEIGH High Street | £115,000 (2014) | £250,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.1% |
| 27 High Street | £22,000 (1997) | £185,000 (2025) | +7.9% | +5.1% |
| GREEN MEADOWS High Street | £250,000 (2011) | £750,000 (2024) | +8.8% | +5.7% |
| 2 VINE HALL High Street | £51,750 (2002) | £101,000 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 23C High Street | £26,000 (2002) | £74,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 30 High Street | £69,950 (2000) | £317,500 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| BARN COTTAGE High Street | £115,000 (2017) | £240,000 (2023) | +13.0% | +8.8% |
| 83 High Street | £222,500 (2001) | £540,000 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.7% |
| CASTLE VIEW High Street | £345,000 (2013) | £620,000 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| FLAT 4 the LODGE High Street | £54,000 (2002) | £130,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Lydney 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 | 72 | 29.4% | £248,000 | £15,000 – £750,000 |
| Terraced | 71 | 29.0% | £115,000 | £22,000 – £317,500 |
| Semi-detached | 60 | 24.5% | £166,000 | £36,500 – £540,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 42 | 17.1% | £55,000 | £7,500 – £130,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Lydney
42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 203 freehold — 17.1% 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 £55,000 and the median freehold sale £175,000 — a gap of +218.2%. 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 | 42 | 17.1% | £55,000 |
| Freehold | 203 | 82.9% | £175,000 |
| New build | 2 | 0.8% | £99,500 |
| Existing home | 243 | 99.2% | £145,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -31.4%. 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 28 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 High Street, Lydney
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Forest of Dean, 38.6% of 39,729 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 10.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 452 | 1.1% |
| B | 5,467 | 13.8% |
| C | 9,410 | 23.7% |
| D | 12,580 | 31.7% |
| E | 7,732 | 19.5% |
| F | 3,095 | 7.8% |
| G | 993 | 2.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Forest of Dean at £824 a month as of Jun 2026 — £591 for a one-bedroom home and £954 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £144,700 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.83% 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 GL15 in Jun 2026 by Gloucestershire. 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 High Street, Lydney
The 2021 census counted 87,004 residents in Forest of Dean across 37,217 households. 73.5% of those households own their home and 26.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a GL15 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dean Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 816 |
| Severnbanks Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 251 |
| Primrose Hill Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 211 |
| Lydney Church of England Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 199 |
| Bream Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 186 |
| Yorkley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 177 |
| St Briavels Parochial Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 148 |
| Woolaston Primary School | Primary | Community school | 113 |
| Blakeney Primary School | Primary | Community school | 75 |
| Pillowell Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 73 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Norchard (Dean Forest Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Dean Forest Railway | Tram | 0.8 km |
| Dean Forest Railway | Tram | 1.7 km |
| St Mary's Halt (Dean Forest Railway) | Tram | 2.3 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Lydney compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Lydney sits below that national figure — -8.1%.
Within Lydney the street ranks 221 of 332 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-9.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,113 per square metre, across 23 of the 245 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 £7,500 to £750,000. 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.
High Street, Lydney sits in Forest of Dean, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Forest of Dean at 8.2 times median local earnings of £33,474 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
- Lych Gate Mews£84,998 median
- Lakeside Avenue£129,000 median
- Parkend Road£142,000 median
- Woodland Rise£125,000 median
- Primrose Hill£160,000 median
- Forest Road£150,000 median
- Beauchamp Meadow£103,500 median
- Queen Street£93,000 median
- Lancaster Drive£145,000 median
- Allaston Road£165,000 median
- Meadowbank£82,500 median
- Kingfisher Drive£228,995 median
- Main Road£191,750 median
- Kimberley Drive£170,000 median
- Mount Pleasant£107,500 median
- Birchwood Road£163,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 7, the LODGE High Street6 sales
- 27 High Street5 sales
- 30 High Street5 sales
- 34 High Street4 sales
- 83 High Street4 sales
- ROSEHILL High Street4 sales
- 38 High Street4 sales
- HIGHVIEW HOUSE High Street4 sales
- 25 High Street4 sales
- 35 High Street4 sales
- SIEBURT HOUSE High Street4 sales
- 49 High Street4 sales
- YORKLEIGH High Street3 sales
- 2, VINE HALL High Street3 sales
- FLAT, 23C High Street3 sales
- FLAT 4, the LODGE High Street3 sales
- 53 High Street3 sales
- FOXLEY High Street3 sales
- PEARTREE COTTAGE High Street3 sales
- 48 High Street3 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE, CROWN LANE High Street3 sales
- THE OLD HOSPITAL, 46 High Street3 sales
- FLAT 3, OLD CO OP HOUSE High Street3 sales
- FLAT 1, OLD CO-OP HOUSE High Street3 sales
Back to Lydney house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Lydney?
The median price paid in High Street, Lydney across every sale on the register is £144,700. 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 High Street, Lydney?
245 sales are on record for High Street, Lydney, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Lydney house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +37.1% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Lydney house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £300,000, 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 High Street, Lydney?
£1,113 per square metre, from the 23 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 30 Apr 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, “High Street, Lydney 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.