Top Lane, Melksham house prices are built from 94 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 23 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £281,500. Across the 13 years from 2008 to 2021 the median moved +2.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.5%.
Median price paid
£281,500
Change in cash, 2008–2021
+2.9%
Change in real terms
-22.5%
HM Land Registry94 salesLatest sale 23 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Top Lane, Melksham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Top Lane, Melksham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 | £89,500 | £198,732 |
| 2000s | 2 | £208,750 | £380,281 |
| 2020s | 1 | £350,000 | £357,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Top Lane, Melksham is £350,000 in 2021; the lowest is £89,500 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £89,500 to £350,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £194,146, so the real change over the whole record is +127.8% — about +3.35% 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: +2.9% in cash against -22.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181 | 23 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £642,500 | £656,467 |
| 134 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| Vale Cottage, 138 | 21 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £920,000 | £940,000 |
| 103 | 17 Mar 2025 | Detached | £525,000 | £536,413 |
| 161b | 28 Nov 2024 | Detached | £440,000 | £462,985 |
| 182 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £760,000 | £799,701 |
| 105 | 8 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £497,011 |
| Brow Cottage, 178a | 9 Sep 2022 | Detached | £395,000 | £457,642 |
| 186 | 3 Mar 2022 | Detached | £875,000 | £1,013,763 |
| 178b | 18 Feb 2022 | Detached | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 129 | 16 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £327,250 | £379,147 |
| 158a | 29 Sep 2021 | Detached | £545,000 | £688,575 |
| Whitley Brow | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £1,220,000 | £1,541,398 |
| 129 | 18 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £241,000 | £304,489 |
| 116b | 30 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 162a | 23 Feb 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 182b | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £540,000 | £699,174 |
| 105i | 11 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| 105j | 2 Dec 2019 | Detached | £320,000 | £418,553 |
| 184 | 20 Nov 2019 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,504,174 |
| 115b | 8 Nov 2019 | Detached | £345,000 | £451,252 |
| 115 | 27 Aug 2019 | Detached | £555,000 | £725,928 |
| 115b | 22 Jun 2018 | Detached | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 163 | 2 Oct 2017 | Detached | £466,250 | £634,568 |
| 116b | 30 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £333,446 |
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 Top Lane, Melksham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181 Top Lane | £205,000 (2001) | £642,500 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 134 Top Lane | £145,000 (2003) | £255,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| VALE COTTAGE, 138 Top Lane | £87,000 (1995) | £920,000 (2025) | +8.2% | +5.4% |
| 186 Top Lane | £225,000 (1996) | £875,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| 129 Top Lane | £130,000 (2002) | £327,250 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.1% |
| 158A Top Lane | £102,000 (1996) | £545,000 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 116B Top Lane | £245,000 (2017) | £350,000 (2021) | +9.3% | +7.3% |
| 105I Top Lane | £247,000 (2007) | £320,000 (2020) | +2.0% | -0.3% |
| 115B Top Lane | £230,000 (2018) | £345,000 (2019) | +50.0% | +47.2% |
| 115 Top Lane | £176,000 (1999) | £555,000 (2019) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| 163 Top Lane | £92,000 (1998) | £466,250 (2017) | +8.9% | +6.5% |
| 115C Top Lane | £225,000 (2005) | £335,000 (2017) | +3.4% | +0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Top Lane, 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 | 61 | 64.9% | £320,000 | £47,269 – £1,220,000 |
| Semi-detached | 16 | 17.0% | £320,000 | £66,000 – £920,000 |
| Terraced | 15 | 16.0% | £160,000 | £40,000 – £327,250 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 2.1% | £245,000 | £245,000 – £350,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Top Lane, Melksham
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 2.1% 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 £297,500 and the median freehold sale £281,500 — a gap of -5.4%. 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 | 2.1% | £297,500 |
| Freehold | 92 | 97.9% | £281,500 |
| New build | 1 | 1.1% | £485,000 |
| Existing home | 93 | 98.9% | £268,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +81.0%. 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 5 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 Top Lane, 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 £281,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.56% 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 Top Lane, 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 Top Lane, Melksham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Top Lane, Melksham sits above that national figure — +78.7%.
Within Melksham the street ranks 70 of 374 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £167,500 (+68.1%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £40,000 to £1,220,000. 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.
Top Lane, 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
- 115A Top Lane5 sales
- VALE COTTAGE, 138 Top Lane4 sales
- 163 Top Lane4 sales
- 115C Top Lane4 sales
- 173 Top Lane4 sales
- 132 Top Lane4 sales
- 105B Top Lane4 sales
- 134 Top Lane3 sales
- 129 Top Lane3 sales
- 181 Top Lane2 sales
- 186 Top Lane2 sales
- 158A Top Lane2 sales
- 116B Top Lane2 sales
- 105I Top Lane2 sales
- 115B Top Lane2 sales
- 115 Top Lane2 sales
- 162 Top Lane2 sales
- 133 Top Lane2 sales
- 105A Top Lane2 sales
- 105C Top Lane2 sales
- 135 Top Lane2 sales
- 159 Top Lane2 sales
- 163A Top Lane2 sales
Back to Melksham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Top Lane, Melksham?
The median price paid in Top Lane, Melksham across every sale on the register is £281,500. 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 Top Lane, Melksham?
94 sales are on record for Top Lane, Melksham, the most recent completing on 23 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Top Lane, Melksham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +2.9% between 2008 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Top Lane, Melksham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £350,000, set in 2021. 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 Top Lane, Melksham?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 23 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, “Top Lane, 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.