Benson Row, Penrith house prices are built from 89 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £80,000. Across the 9 years from 1997 to 2006 the median moved +313.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +247.4%.
Median price paid
£80,000
Change in cash, 1997–2006
+313.8%
Change in real terms
+247.4%
Median per m²
£1,417
HM Land Registry89 sales13 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Benson Row, Penrith prices moved
The chart tracks the median Benson Row, Penrith house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2006. 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 | £29,000 | £64,394 |
| 2000s | 4 | £48,000 | £87,442 |
The highest yearly median on record for Benson Row, Penrith is £120,000 in 2006; the lowest is £29,000 in 1997. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £29,000 to £120,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £61,489, so the real change over the whole record is +247.4% — about +14.84% 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: +313.8% in cash against +247.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Hutton Court | 27 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 14 Hutton Court | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 6 Hutton Court | 23 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £87,870 |
| 14 Hutton Court | 12 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £89,440 |
| 2 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| 3 Hutton Court | 23 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £98,910 |
| 10 | 14 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £160,500 | £173,414 |
| 3 Hutton Court | 23 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| 14 Hutton Court | 18 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £108,907 |
| Hutton Cottage | 31 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £155,000 | £179,581 |
| 2 Hutton Court | 14 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £92,500 | £116,868 |
| 2 | 19 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £119,950 | £151,550 |
| 12 Hutton Court | 6 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 3 Hutton Court | 23 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £90,634 |
| 2 | 28 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 6a | 11 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £115,000 | £150,417 |
| 11 | 22 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £138,500 | £181,155 |
| 1 Hutton Court | 17 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £76,000 | £101,285 |
| 14 | 25 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £87,000 | £115,945 |
| 11 Hutton Court | 1 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £106,616 |
| 10 | 24 May 2018 | Terraced | £125,000 | £166,588 |
| 6 Hutton Court | 27 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £108,880 |
| 7 | 4 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £198,500 | £277,114 |
| Hutton Cottage | 29 Apr 2016 | Terraced | £100,000 | £139,604 |
| 12 | 24 Aug 2015 | Terraced | £125,000 | £176,250 |
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 Benson Row, Penrith values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £32,000 (1998) | £80,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.7% |
| 14 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £34,500 (1999) | £80,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.5% |
| 6 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £32,000 (1997) | £86,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.9% |
| 2 Benson Row | £82,501 (2007) | £130,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 3 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £33,500 (1999) | £94,000 (2024) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 10 Benson Row | £120,000 (2006) | £160,500 (2023) | +1.7% | -1.2% |
| HUTTON COTTAGE Benson Row | £78,000 (2002) | £155,000 (2022) | +3.5% | +0.9% |
| 2 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £27,000 (1995) | £92,500 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
| 12 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £34,000 (1998) | £90,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.1% |
| 11 Benson Row | £80,000 (2013) | £138,500 (2019) | +9.6% | +7.6% |
| 1 HUTTON COURT Benson Row | £36,000 (2001) | £76,000 (2018) | +4.5% | +2.1% |
| 14 Benson Row | £36,000 (2001) | £87,000 (2018) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Benson Row, Penrith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 53 | 59.6% | £70,000 | £27,000 – £120,000 |
| Terraced | 32 | 36.0% | £87,000 | £26,000 – £198,500 |
| Detached | 2 | 2.2% | £34,100 | £34,100 – £92,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 2.2% | £44,200 | £44,200 – £143,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Benson Row, Penrith
53 of the sales on record are leasehold and 36 freehold — 59.6% 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 £70,000 and the median freehold sale £87,000 — a gap of +24.3%. 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 | 53 | 59.6% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 36 | 40.4% | £87,000 |
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 Benson Row, Penrith
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Westmorland and Furness, 32.5% of 122,630 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 11.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 731 | 0.6% |
| B | 9,385 | 7.7% |
| C | 29,797 | 24.3% |
| D | 46,012 | 37.5% |
| E | 22,921 | 18.7% |
| F | 10,237 | 8.3% |
| G | 3,547 | 2.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Westmorland and Furness at £808 a month as of Jun 2026 — £598 for a one-bedroom home and £933 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £80,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.12% 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 CA11, 14 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 7 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 11.9 times quieter.
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 Benson Row, Penrith
13 state and independent schools have a CA11 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ullswater Community College | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,520 |
| Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,026 |
| Beaconside CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 445 |
| North Lakes School | Primary | Community school | 161 |
| Brunswick School | Primary | Community school | 140 |
| Stainton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 112 |
| St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Penrith | Primary | Academy converter | 104 |
| Plumpton School | Primary | Community school | 102 |
| Skelton School | Primary | Community school | 87 |
| Calthwaite CofE School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 69 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Penrith North Lakes Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Langwathby Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
| Lazonby & Kirkoswald Rail Station | Rail | 10.9 km |
| Armathwaite Rail Station | Rail | 16.1 km |
Section 09
How Benson Row, Penrith compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Benson Row, Penrith sits below that national figure — -49.2%.
Within Penrith the street ranks 507 of 552 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £156,000 (-48.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,417 per square metre, across 13 of the 89 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 £26,000 to £198,500. 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.
Benson Row, Penrith sits in Westmorland and Furness, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Westmorland and Furness at 5.9 times median local earnings of £40,529 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
- Wordsworth Street£127,251 median
- Graham Street£139,975 median
- Bridge Lane£130,000 median
- Roper Street£122,750 median
- Norfolk Place£73,250 median
- Macadam Gardens£132,000 median
- Primrose Drive£151,995 median
- Foster Street£72,500 median
- Brougham Street£107,500 median
- Musgrave Street£148,000 median
- Penny Hill Park£143,000 median
- Croft Avenue£170,000 median
- Arthur Street£195,000 median
- Brentfield Way£130,000 median
- Meadow Croft£136,000 median
- Salkeld Road£166,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2, HUTTON COURT Benson Row7 sales
- 14, HUTTON COURT Benson Row5 sales
- 3, HUTTON COURT Benson Row5 sales
- 6, HUTTON COURT Benson Row4 sales
- 2 Benson Row4 sales
- 10 Benson Row4 sales
- 14 Benson Row4 sales
- 12 Benson Row4 sales
- 7, HUTTON COURT Benson Row4 sales
- 13, HUTTON COURT Benson Row4 sales
- 9, HUTTON COURT Benson Row3 sales
- HUTTON COTTAGE Benson Row3 sales
- 12, HUTTON COURT Benson Row3 sales
- 1, HUTTON COURT Benson Row3 sales
- 1 Benson Row3 sales
- 15, HUTTON COURT Benson Row3 sales
- 11 Benson Row2 sales
- 11, HUTTON COURT Benson Row2 sales
- 16, HUTTON COURT Benson Row2 sales
- 5, HUTTON COURT Benson Row2 sales
- 4, HUTTON COURT Benson Row2 sales
- 3 Benson Row2 sales
- BENSON HOUSE, 6 Benson Row2 sales
- 5 Benson Row2 sales
Back to Penrith house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Benson Row, Penrith?
The median price paid in Benson Row, Penrith across every sale on the register is £80,000. 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 Benson Row, Penrith?
89 sales are on record for Benson Row, Penrith, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Benson Row, Penrith house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +313.8% between 1997 and 2006. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +247.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Benson Row, Penrith house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £120,000, 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 Benson Row, Penrith?
£1,417 per square metre, from the 13 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 27 Mar 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, “Benson Row, Penrith 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.