High Street, Shepton Mallet house prices are built from 222 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,500. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +208.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +119.8%.
Median price paid
£125,500
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+208.6%
Change in real terms
+119.8%
Median per m²
£1,352
HM Land Registry222 sales26 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Shepton Mallet prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Shepton Mallet house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2025. 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 | 3 | £88,250 | £195,956 |
| 2000s | 10 | £116,500 | £212,229 |
| 2010s | 7 | £188,350 | £265,574 |
| 2020s | 5 | £298,750 | £305,245 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Shepton Mallet is £540,000 in 2025; the lowest is £69,995 in 1998. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £88,250 to £540,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £187,115, so the real change over the whole record is +194.9% — about +3.94% 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: +208.6% in cash against +119.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33a | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £107,000 | £107,000 |
| Spring Cottage | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £377,500 | £377,500 |
| Stream Cottage | 1 Sep 2025 | Detached | £1,400,000 | £1,430,435 |
| Flat 7 65 | 10 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £117,000 | £119,543 |
| Evercreech House | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £975,000 | £996,196 |
| Conkers | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £540,000 | £551,739 |
| 33b | 17 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £89,000 | £90,935 |
| Denick | 4 Oct 2024 | Detached | £362,500 | £381,437 |
| Kharisma | 1 Aug 2024 | Detached | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| The Barn | 3 Jul 2024 | Detached | £415,000 | £436,679 |
| 30a | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| Millstone Cottage | 28 May 2024 | Detached | £645,000 | £678,694 |
| Bonsai Cottage | 8 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £112,000 | £121,011 |
| 2 Milliner Court | 7 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £132,897 |
| The Lawns | 1 Aug 2023 | Detached | £589,950 | £637,417 |
| 33a | 8 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| Flat 3 65 | 31 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £137,500 | £148,563 |
| 9 | 24 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £97,000 | £104,805 |
| 15b | 2 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £127,494 |
| Barley Mow House | 25 Jan 2023 | Detached | £810,000 | £875,172 |
| 31a | 11 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| Crossways | 3 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| Wayside Cottage | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| Dolphin Cottage | 9 Aug 2021 | Detached | £480,000 | £606,452 |
| 7 | 23 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £134,000 | £169,301 |
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, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33A High Street | £80,000 (2011) | £107,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| STREAM COTTAGE High Street | £435,000 (2004) | £1,400,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 7 65 High Street | £120,000 (2018) | £117,000 (2025) | -0.4% | -4.1% |
| EVERCREECH HOUSE High Street | £470,000 (2007) | £975,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| CONKERS High Street | £133,000 (1999) | £540,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 33B High Street | £75,000 (2008) | £89,000 (2025) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| DENICK High Street | £130,000 (2000) | £362,500 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| KHARISMA High Street | £357,000 (2020) | £410,000 (2024) | +3.5% | -1.7% |
| THE BARN High Street | £317,500 (2021) | £415,000 (2024) | +9.3% | +2.9% |
| 30A High Street | £69,000 (2007) | £100,000 (2024) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| MILLSTONE COTTAGE High Street | £126,000 (1996) | £645,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| BONSAI COTTAGE High Street | £31,500 (1998) | £112,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 76 | 34.2% | £115,000 | £31,350 – £975,000 |
| Detached | 60 | 27.0% | £326,000 | £73,500 – £1,400,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 58 | 26.1% | £88,000 | £37,250 – £375,000 |
| Semi-detached | 28 | 12.6% | £164,000 | £42,000 – £470,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Shepton Mallet
59 of the sales on record are leasehold and 163 freehold — 26.6% 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 £88,000 and the median freehold sale £158,000 — a gap of +79.5%. 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 | 59 | 26.6% | £88,000 |
| Freehold | 163 | 73.4% | £158,000 |
| New build | 14 | 6.3% | £65,000 |
| Existing home | 208 | 93.7% | £128,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -49.5%. 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 21 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 High Street, Shepton Mallet compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Shepton Mallet sits below that national figure — -20.3%.
Within Shepton Mallet the street ranks 247 of 301 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £162,000 (-22.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,352 per square metre, across 26 of the 222 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 £31,350 to £1,400,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- 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
- Hobbs Road£190,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 3 High Street7 sales
- 2 High Street5 sales
- 6 High Street5 sales
- BONSAI COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- 9 High Street4 sales
- 15B High Street4 sales
- 6, MILLINER COURT High Street4 sales
- HAVEN COTTAGE, 5 High Street4 sales
- 57A High Street4 sales
- MAYFIELD High Street4 sales
- DAISY COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- WOOTTON COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- 33A High Street3 sales
- FLAT 7, 65 High Street3 sales
- EVERCREECH HOUSE High Street3 sales
- CONKERS High Street3 sales
- MILLSTONE COTTAGE High Street3 sales
- FLAT 3, 65 High Street3 sales
- CROSSWAYS High Street3 sales
- 7A – 7B High Street3 sales
- 5, MILLINER COURT High Street3 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE High Street3 sales
- SHERSTON HOUSE High Street3 sales
- 53 High Street3 sales
Back to Shepton Mallet house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Shepton Mallet?
The median price paid in High Street, Shepton Mallet across every sale on the register is £125,500. 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, Shepton Mallet?
222 sales are on record for High Street, Shepton Mallet, 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, Shepton Mallet house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +208.6% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +119.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Shepton Mallet house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £540,000, set in 2025. 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, Shepton Mallet?
£1,352 per square metre, from the 26 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, 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.