Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet house prices are built from 82 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 29 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £92,500. Across the 13 years from 2002 to 2015 the median moved +25.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.1%.
Median price paid
£92,500
Change in cash, 2002–2015
+25.7%
Change in real terms
-8.1%
Median per m²
£1,618
HM Land Registry82 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2015. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £63,250 | £115,223 |
| 2010s | 2 | £79,500 | £112,095 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet is £130,000 in 2012; the lowest is £55,000 in 2000. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £79,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £110,000, so the real change over the whole record is +1.9% — about +0.13% 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: +25.7% in cash against -8.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 29 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 58 | 4 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £217,000 | £228,336 |
| 16 | 12 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £137,500 | £144,683 |
| 15 | 12 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £128,000 | £134,687 |
| Flat 3 Milton Court | 10 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £119,000 | £125,216 |
| 55 | 29 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £232,500 | £269,371 |
| Flat 3 Milton Court | 11 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £107,000 | £123,969 |
| Keates Cottage, 30a | 23 Mar 2021 | Detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 51 | 19 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 54 | 1 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £169,800 | £214,532 |
| 62 | 25 Jul 2018 | Detached | £272,000 | £362,495 |
| 54 | 13 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £186,578 |
| 2 the Old Chapel | 5 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £253,214 |
| Keates Cottage, 30a | 12 Jan 2018 | Detached | £285,000 | £379,820 |
| Flat 3 Milton Court | 8 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £92,500 | £125,893 |
| Flat 8 Milton Court | 27 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £89,000 | £121,129 |
| 55 | 23 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £162,950 | £221,776 |
| 58a | 20 Mar 2017 | Detached | £260,000 | £353,861 |
| 33 | 22 Apr 2016 | Detached | £260,000 | £362,970 |
| 62 | 1 Apr 2016 | Detached | £225,000 | £314,109 |
| 60 | 30 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £216,386 |
| Flat 3 Milton Court | 23 Oct 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £79,500 | £112,095 |
| Flat 4 Milton Court | 23 Oct 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £79,000 | £111,390 |
| 54 | 11 Aug 2015 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £169,200 |
| Flat 8 Milton Court | 30 Jul 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £84,600 |
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 Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Cowl Street | £108,000 (2006) | £250,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 3 MILTON COURT Cowl Street | £25,000 (2000) | £119,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 55 Cowl Street | £26,000 (1995) | £232,500 (2022) | +8.5% | +5.9% |
| KEATES COTTAGE, 30A Cowl Street | £285,000 (2018) | £360,000 (2021) | +8.1% | +6.2% |
| 54 Cowl Street | £35,000 (1998) | £169,800 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 62 Cowl Street | £225,000 (2016) | £272,000 (2018) | +9.9% | +7.4% |
| 2 the OLD CHAPEL Cowl Street | £130,000 (2012) | £190,000 (2018) | +6.5% | +4.5% |
| FLAT 8 MILTON COURT Cowl Street | £19,000 (1996) | £89,000 (2017) | +7.6% | +5.3% |
| 33 Cowl Street | £160,000 (2015) | £260,000 (2016) | +62.5% | +60.9% |
| 60 Cowl Street | £92,500 (2012) | £155,000 (2016) | +13.8% | +11.9% |
| FLAT 4 MILTON COURT Cowl Street | £76,000 (2006) | £79,000 (2015) | +0.4% | -2.1% |
| THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, 25 Cowl Street | £190,000 (2010) | £170,000 (2014) | -2.7% | -5.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet 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 | 29 | 35.4% | £74,000 | £19,000 – £190,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 31.7% | £137,500 | £26,000 – £407,500 |
| Terraced | 15 | 18.3% | £70,000 | £35,000 – £250,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 14.6% | £225,000 | £45,000 – £360,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet
29 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53 freehold — 35.4% 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 £74,000 and the median freehold sale £137,500 — a gap of +85.8%. 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 | 29 | 35.4% | £74,000 |
| Freehold | 53 | 64.6% | £137,500 |
| New build | 3 | 3.7% | £175,000 |
| Existing home | 79 | 96.3% | £92,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +89.2%. 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 09
How Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet sits below that national figure — -41.3%.
Within Shepton Mallet the street ranks 285 of 301 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £162,000 (-42.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,618 per square metre, across 27 of the 82 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 £19,000 to £407,500. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£125,500 median
- Finch Close£144,000 median
- Charlton Road£160,000 median
- Barrington Place£132,500 median
- Beech Avenue£144,500 median
- Whitstone Road£145,000 median
- Bishop Crescent£130,500 median
- Garston Street£108,000 median
- Coombe Lane£141,750 median
- Little Brooks Lane£175,500 median
- Westbrook Vale£124,250 median
- Victoria Grove£127,750 median
- Willow Drive£99,500 median
- Walnut Grove£181,500 median
- Nightingale Grove£145,000 median
- Hyatt Place£157,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 3, MILTON COURT Cowl Street9 sales
- 55 Cowl Street7 sales
- 54 Cowl Street6 sales
- 75 Cowl Street5 sales
- 78 Cowl Street4 sales
- FLAT 7, MILTON COURT Cowl Street4 sales
- 51 Cowl Street3 sales
- FLAT 8, MILTON COURT Cowl Street3 sales
- FLAT 6, MILTON COURT Cowl Street3 sales
- KEATES COTTAGE, 30A Cowl Street2 sales
- 62 Cowl Street2 sales
- 2, the OLD CHAPEL Cowl Street2 sales
- 33 Cowl Street2 sales
- 60 Cowl Street2 sales
- FLAT 4, MILTON COURT Cowl Street2 sales
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, 25 Cowl Street2 sales
- 1, the OLD CHAPEL Cowl Street2 sales
- 30 Cowl Street2 sales
- FLAT 1, MILTON COURT Cowl Street2 sales
- 73 Cowl Street2 sales
Back to Shepton Mallet house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet?
The median price paid in Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet across every sale on the register is £92,500. 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 Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet?
82 sales are on record for Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet, 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 Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +25.7% between 2002 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £130,000, set in 2012. 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 Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet?
£1,618 per square metre, from the 27 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, “Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet 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.