High Street, Melksham house prices are built from 80 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 7 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £262,500. Across the 20 years from 2002 to 2022 the median moved +228.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +97.6%.
Median price paid
£262,500
Change in cash, 2002–2022
+228.9%
Change in real terms
+97.6%
Median per m²
£1,280
HM Land Registry80 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 7 Jul 2025
Section 01
How High Street, Melksham prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Melksham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. 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 | 1 | £87,750 | £194,846 |
| 2000s | 1 | £152,000 | £276,899 |
| 2010s | 1 | £316,000 | £445,560 |
| 2020s | 1 | £500,000 | £510,870 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Melksham is £500,000 in 2022; the lowest is £87,750 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £87,750 to £500,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £186,056, so the real change over the whole record is +211.4% — about +4.65% 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: +228.9% in cash against +97.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49a | 7 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| Burnham Cottage | 18 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| Bakery Cottage | 8 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £276,000 | £290,418 |
| New Sarum | 27 Jun 2024 | Detached | £435,000 | £457,724 |
| Ivy Cottage | 6 Feb 2024 | Detached | £402,000 | £423,000 |
| The Laurels | 29 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £515,000 | £596,672 |
| The Former Vicarage | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £1,200,000 | £1,390,304 |
| 1 | 13 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £360,000 | £417,091 |
| Somner Place | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| Flat 1 12 | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £345,000 | £399,712 |
| Piskey Cottage | 8 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £275,000 | £347,446 |
| The Cottage | 18 Nov 2021 | Detached | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| New Sarum | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| The Olde Bakehouse | 24 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £731,543 |
| Nornour | 6 Dec 2019 | Detached | £336,000 | £439,481 |
| Nornour | 31 Oct 2018 | Detached | £316,000 | £421,134 |
| Jasmine Cottage | 19 Oct 2018 | Detached | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| Good Rest | 6 Mar 2018 | Detached | £420,000 | £559,735 |
| The Laurels | 28 Feb 2018 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £419,802 |
| Burnham Cottage | 1 Feb 2018 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| The Vicarage | 27 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £555,000 | £755,357 |
| Eagle Cottage | 12 Oct 2017 | Detached | £350,000 | £476,351 |
| View Rosa | 9 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £365,000 | £496,766 |
| Badbury House | 6 Oct 2016 | Semi-detached | £850,000 | £1,186,634 |
| 4 | 23 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £280,000 | £390,891 |
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, Melksham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49A High Street | £23,000 (2002) | £105,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +3.9% |
| BURNHAM COTTAGE High Street | £250,000 (2018) | £270,000 (2024) | +1.3% | -2.6% |
| NEW SARUM High Street | £400,000 (2021) | £435,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -3.2% |
| THE LAURELS High Street | £315,000 (2018) | £515,000 (2022) | +13.1% | +9.2% |
| 1 High Street | £192,500 (2010) | £360,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| PISKEY COTTAGE High Street | £70,000 (1997) | £275,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| THE COTTAGE High Street | £76,000 (1996) | £415,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| THE OLDE BAKEHOUSE High Street | £108,500 (1995) | £565,000 (2020) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
| NORNOUR High Street | £169,950 (2002) | £336,000 (2019) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| GOOD REST High Street | £235,000 (2007) | £420,000 (2018) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| VIEW ROSA High Street | £95,000 (1996) | £365,000 (2017) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
| BADBURY HOUSE High Street | £335,000 (1997) | £850,000 (2016) | +5.0% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Melksham 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 | 29 | 36.3% | £350,000 | £76,000 – £3,000,000 |
| Semi-detached | 25 | 31.3% | £200,000 | £64,000 – £850,000 |
| Terraced | 20 | 25.0% | £192,500 | £58,000 – £1,200,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 7.5% | £59,000 | £23,000 – £345,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Melksham
7 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 freehold — 8.8% 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 £77,500 and the median freehold sale £276,000 — a gap of +256.1%. 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 | 7 | 8.8% | £77,500 |
| Freehold | 73 | 91.3% | £276,000 |
| New build | 1 | 1.3% | £169,950 |
| Existing home | 79 | 98.8% | £270,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -37.1%. 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 14 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, Melksham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wiltshire, 46.2% of 244,491 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,879 | 0.8% |
| B | 35,247 | 14.4% |
| C | 75,811 | 31.0% |
| D | 82,467 | 33.7% |
| E | 35,498 | 14.5% |
| F | 10,863 | 4.4% |
| G | 2,726 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wiltshire at £1,069 a month as of Jun 2026 — £740 for a one-bedroom home and £1,204 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £262,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.89% 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 SN12, 138 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 51 violent, 2 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 510,333 residents the 2021 census counted in Wiltshire, that is 0.27 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around High Street, Melksham
The 2021 census counted 510,333 residents in Wiltshire across 215,081 households. 68.0% of those households own their home and 31.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a SN12 postcode: 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melksham Oak Community School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,058 |
| Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 460 |
| Bowerhill Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 378 |
| Aloeric Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 360 |
| River Mead School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 261 |
| Shaw CE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 189 |
| Churchfields, the Village School | Primary | Academy converter | 121 |
| The Manor CofE VC Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 121 |
| Seend Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 71 |
| St Mary's Broughton Gifford Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 61 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Melksham Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Trowbridge Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
| Bradford-on-Avon Rail Station | Rail | 8.6 km |
| Chippenham Rail Station | Rail | 10.2 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Melksham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Melksham sits above that national figure — +66.7%.
Within Melksham the street ranks 94 of 374 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £167,500 (+56.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,280 per square metre, across 2 of the 80 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 £3,000,000. 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, Melksham sits in Wiltshire, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wiltshire at 8.8 times median local earnings of £36,370 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
- Primrose Drive£110,128 median
- Spa Road£81,000 median
- Forest Road£139,950 median
- Bath Road£240,000 median
- Semington Road£149,998 median
- Daisy Close£84,000 median
- Weavers Crofts£109,750 median
- Skylark Road£235,000 median
- Lowbourne£121,950 median
- Savernake Avenue£159,950 median
- Hornchurch Road£199,998 median
- Woodrow Road£185,000 median
- Barnes Wallis Close£117,475 median
- Market Place£90,000 median
- Kenilworth Gardens£126,500 median
- Speedwell Close£115,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- VIEW ROSA High Street5 sales
- PISKEY COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- NORNOUR High Street4 sales
- 49A High Street3 sales
- 1 High Street3 sales
- THE COTTAGE High Street3 sales
- THE OLDE BAKEHOUSE High Street3 sales
- BADBURY HOUSE High Street3 sales
- 4 High Street3 sales
- 49B High Street3 sales
- MANDALAY High Street3 sales
- BURNHAM COTTAGE High Street2 sales
- NEW SARUM High Street2 sales
- THE LAURELS High Street2 sales
- GOOD REST High Street2 sales
- CHURCH LANE CORNER High Street2 sales
- CANTY NEUK High Street2 sales
- WILTSHIRE HOUSE High Street2 sales
- WISTERIA COTTAGE High Street2 sales
- FAIRHOLME High Street2 sales
Back to Melksham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Melksham?
The median price paid in High Street, Melksham across every sale on the register is £262,500. 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 High Street, Melksham?
80 sales are on record for High Street, Melksham, the most recent completing on 7 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Melksham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +228.9% between 2002 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +97.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Melksham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £500,000, 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, Melksham?
£1,280 per square metre, from the 2 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 7 Jul 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, “High Street, Melksham 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.