Orchard Close, Sleaford house prices are built from 179 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved -16.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -36.0%.
Median price paid
£135,000
Change in cash, 2007–2018
-16.5%
Change in real terms
-36.0%
Median per m²
£1,424
HM Land Registry179 sales10 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How Orchard Close, Sleaford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Orchard Close, Sleaford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2018. 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 | 7 | £135,000 | £245,930 |
| 2010s | 9 | £146,475 | £206,530 |
The highest yearly median on record for Orchard Close, Sleaford is £187,500 in 2016; the lowest is £44,500 in 2002. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £142,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £96,000, so the real change over the whole record is +97.1% — about +3.84% 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: -16.5% in cash against -36.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £192,500 |
| Maple House | 13 Oct 2025 | Detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 48 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 17 | 21 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 20 | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 25 | 28 Feb 2023 | Detached | £262,500 | £283,621 |
| 27 | 24 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £97,241 |
| 41 | 18 May 2022 | Terraced | £187,500 | £217,235 |
| 10 | 14 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £146,000 | £169,154 |
| 1 | 5 Oct 2021 | Detached | £186,690 | £235,872 |
| 65 | 4 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £141,000 | £182,562 |
| 15 | 15 Nov 2019 | Detached | £178,000 | £232,820 |
| 16 | 30 Sep 2019 | Detached | £230,000 | £300,835 |
| 29 | 24 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £103,500 | £135,376 |
| 47 | 29 Mar 2019 | Detached | £220,000 | £287,755 |
| 65 | 14 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £123,500 | £164,589 |
| 44 | 15 Nov 2018 | Detached | £211,000 | £281,200 |
| 39 | 12 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £142,000 | £189,244 |
| 23 | 27 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £79,000 | £105,284 |
| 17 | 17 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £199,905 |
| 4 | 29 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £136,000 | £181,248 |
| 18 | 27 Mar 2018 | Detached | £268,500 | £357,831 |
| 3 | 9 Feb 2018 | Detached | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 19 | 9 Feb 2018 | Semi-detached | £121,000 | £161,257 |
| 37 | 28 Sep 2017 | Terraced | £80,000 | £108,880 |
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 Orchard Close, Sleaford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Orchard Close | £38,250 (1995) | £192,500 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 48 Orchard Close | £170,000 (2005) | £290,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 17 Orchard Close | £51,500 (2001) | £165,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 20 Orchard Close | £135,000 (2003) | £325,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
| 25 Orchard Close | £26,850 (1998) | £262,500 (2023) | +9.5% | +6.7% |
| 27 Orchard Close | £50,000 (2003) | £90,000 (2023) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 41 Orchard Close | £49,950 (2002) | £187,500 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 10 Orchard Close | £48,000 (2000) | £146,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| 1 Orchard Close | £39,155 (1995) | £186,690 (2021) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 65 Orchard Close | £120,000 (2007) | £141,000 (2020) | +1.2% | -1.0% |
| 16 Orchard Close | £135,000 (2003) | £230,000 (2019) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 29 Orchard Close | £130,000 (2004) | £103,500 (2019) | -1.5% | -3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Orchard Close, Sleaford 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 | 104 | 58.1% | £164,340 | £20,000 – £395,000 |
| Terraced | 35 | 19.6% | £92,000 | £29,000 – £187,500 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 13.4% | £114,750 | £34,250 – £192,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 16 | 8.9% | £50,000 | £26,850 – £90,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Orchard Close, Sleaford
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 161 freehold — 10.1% 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 £51,000 and the median freehold sale £145,000 — a gap of +184.3%. 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 | 18 | 10.1% | £51,000 |
| Freehold | 161 | 89.9% | £145,000 |
| New build | 40 | 22.3% | £157,500 |
| Existing home | 139 | 77.7% | £123,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +28.0%. 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 Orchard Close, Sleaford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Kesteven, 45.4% of 59,789 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 | 656 | 1.1% |
| B | 9,321 | 15.6% |
| C | 17,139 | 28.7% |
| D | 21,667 | 36.2% |
| E | 7,661 | 12.8% |
| F | 2,616 | 4.4% |
| G | 729 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Kesteven at £818 a month as of Jun 2026 — £576 for a one-bedroom home and £916 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.27% 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 NG34, 45 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 20 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.7 times quieter.
Against the 118,075 residents the 2021 census counted in North Kesteven, that is 0.38 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 Orchard Close, Sleaford
The 2021 census counted 118,075 residents in North Kesteven across 50,989 households. 73.8% of those households own their home and 26.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
19 state and independent schools have a NG34 postcode: 16 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St George's Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 2,281 |
| Carre's Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 810 |
| Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 747 |
| William Alvey School | Primary | Academy converter | 570 |
| St Botolph's C of E Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 402 |
| Cranwell Primary School (Foundation) | Primary | Foundation school | 269 |
| Church Lane Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Community school | 218 |
| Winchelsea Primary School Ruskington | Primary | Community school | 212 |
| The Leasingham St Andrew's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 190 |
| Rauceby Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 164 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sleaford Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Rauceby Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Ruskington Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Heckington Rail Station | Rail | 6.8 km |
Section 09
How Orchard Close, Sleaford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Orchard Close, Sleaford sits below that national figure — -14.3%.
Within Sleaford the street ranks 319 of 635 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £128,000 (+5.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,424 per square metre, across 10 of the 179 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 £20,000 to £395,000. 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.
Orchard Close, Sleaford sits in North Kesteven, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Kesteven at 7.0 times median local earnings of £34,457 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
- High Street£155,000 median
- Grantham Road£139,950 median
- Station Road£149,000 median
- Churchfields Road£123,500 median
- Sleaford Road£175,000 median
- North Parade£128,000 median
- Main Street£205,000 median
- Westbeck£99,995 median
- Elmtree Road£85,250 median
- Lincoln Road£155,000 median
- Winchester Way£80,250 median
- Sheldrake Road£152,000 median
- Falcon Way£97,500 median
- Church Lane£139,950 median
- Boston Road£116,000 median
- West Road£151,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1 Orchard Close8 sales
- 7 Orchard Close7 sales
- 6 Orchard Close7 sales
- 41 Orchard Close6 sales
- 4 Orchard Close5 sales
- 17 Orchard Close5 sales
- 25 Orchard Close5 sales
- 65 Orchard Close5 sales
- 3 Orchard Close5 sales
- 5 Orchard Close5 sales
- 20 Orchard Close4 sales
- 27 Orchard Close4 sales
- 29 Orchard Close4 sales
- 39 Orchard Close4 sales
- 23 Orchard Close4 sales
- 18 Orchard Close4 sales
- 37 Orchard Close4 sales
- 8 Orchard Close4 sales
- 53 Orchard Close4 sales
- 28 Orchard Close4 sales
- 16 Orchard Close3 sales
- 47 Orchard Close3 sales
- 44 Orchard Close3 sales
- 19 Orchard Close3 sales
Back to Sleaford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Orchard Close, Sleaford?
The median price paid in Orchard Close, Sleaford across every sale on the register is £135,000. 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 Orchard Close, Sleaford?
179 sales are on record for Orchard Close, Sleaford, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Orchard Close, Sleaford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -16.5% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -36.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Orchard Close, Sleaford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £187,500, set in 2016. 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 Orchard Close, Sleaford?
£1,424 per square metre, from the 10 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 1 May 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, “Orchard Close, Sleaford 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.