Foundry Drive, St Austell house prices are built from 116 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2008 and the most recent on 13 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £179,000. Across the 11 years from 2011 to 2022 the median moved +76.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +33.2%.
Median price paid
£179,000
Change in cash, 2011–2022
+76.2%
Change in real terms
+33.2%
HM Land Registry116 salesLatest sale 13 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Foundry Drive, St Austell prices moved
The chart tracks the median Foundry Drive, St Austell house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2008 to 2022. 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 | 2 | £200,000 | £364,341 |
| 2010s | 4 | £162,750 | £229,478 |
| 2020s | 1 | £280,200 | £286,291 |
The highest yearly median on record for Foundry Drive, St Austell is £302,500 in 2008; the lowest is £159,000 in 2011. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £302,500 to £280,200.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £507,768, so the real change over the whole record is -36.1% — about -3.14% 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: +76.2% in cash against +33.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 13 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 42 | 20 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| 7 Polmear Apartments | 12 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 9 | 3 Jul 2024 | Detached | £412,500 | £434,049 |
| 44 | 19 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £162,250 | £170,726 |
| 68 | 8 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £249,950 | £270,061 |
| 25 | 20 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 21 | 4 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £280,200 | £324,636 |
| 30 | 3 May 2022 | Terraced | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 8 | 28 Jan 2022 | Detached | £422,500 | £489,503 |
| 4 Polmear Apartments | 28 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £274,000 | £317,453 |
| 4 | 15 Feb 2021 | Detached | £384,000 | £485,161 |
| 17 | 23 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £208,000 | £269,311 |
| 76 | 19 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £205,000 | £268,135 |
| 30 | 10 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £204,000 | £266,827 |
| 42 | 20 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £197,950 | £258,914 |
| 18 | 15 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £202,500 | £269,872 |
| 16 | 11 May 2018 | Terraced | £340,000 | £453,119 |
| 27 | 27 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £185,000 | £251,786 |
| 15 | 13 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £125,100 | £170,262 |
| 44 | 29 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £105,020 | £142,933 |
| 7 | 28 Apr 2017 | Terraced | £185,000 | £251,786 |
| 24 | 3 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £196,000 | £266,757 |
| 30 | 2 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £175,000 | £244,307 |
| 9 | 21 Jul 2016 | Detached | £272,000 | £379,723 |
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 Foundry Drive, St Austell values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Foundry Drive | £147,500 (2011) | £245,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 42 Foundry Drive | £165,000 (2010) | £260,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 7 POLMEAR APARTMENTS Foundry Drive | £230,000 (2008) | £290,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.5% |
| 9 Foundry Drive | £280,000 (2009) | £412,500 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 44 Foundry Drive | £165,000 (2010) | £162,250 (2024) | -0.1% | -3.1% |
| 68 Foundry Drive | £148,000 (2011) | £249,950 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.5% |
| 25 Foundry Drive | £160,000 (2010) | £285,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 30 Foundry Drive | £165,000 (2010) | £265,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 4 POLMEAR APARTMENTS Foundry Drive | £170,000 (2009) | £274,000 (2022) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 8 Foundry Drive | £285,000 (2009) | £422,500 (2022) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| 4 Foundry Drive | £350,000 (2008) | £384,000 (2021) | +0.7% | -1.5% |
| 17 Foundry Drive | £164,830 (2010) | £208,000 (2020) | +2.4% | +0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Foundry Drive, St Austell 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 | 82 | 70.7% | £165,000 | £97,250 – £350,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 23 | 19.8% | £190,000 | £97,250 – £290,000 |
| Detached | 8 | 6.9% | £345,000 | £272,000 – £422,500 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | 2.6% | £265,000 | £160,000 – £285,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Foundry Drive, St Austell
22 of the sales on record are leasehold and 94 freehold — 19.0% 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 £190,000 and the median freehold sale £170,000 — a gap of -10.5%. 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 | 22 | 19.0% | £190,000 |
| Freehold | 94 | 81.0% | £170,000 |
| New build | 74 | 63.8% | £171,000 |
| Existing home | 42 | 36.2% | £185,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -7.6%. 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 7 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 Foundry Drive, St Austell
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cornwall, 37.4% of 321,040 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 14.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 3,287 | 1.0% |
| B | 36,937 | 11.5% |
| C | 79,827 | 24.9% |
| D | 92,894 | 28.9% |
| E | 62,653 | 19.5% |
| F | 32,170 | 10.0% |
| G | 13,272 | 4.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cornwall at £1,005 a month as of Jun 2026 — £692 for a one-bedroom home and £1,082 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £179,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.74% 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 PL25, 199 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 78 violent, 8 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 570,305 residents the 2021 census counted in Cornwall, that is 0.35 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 Foundry Drive, St Austell
The 2021 census counted 570,305 residents in Cornwall across 250,533 households. 67.4% of those households own their home and 32.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a PL25 postcode: 6 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrice Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,405 |
| Poltair School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 882 |
| Sandy Hill Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 455 |
| Carclaze Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 377 |
| Charlestown Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 372 |
| Mount Charles School | Primary | Academy converter | 333 |
| Bishop Bronescombe CofE School | Primary | Academy converter | 267 |
| Pondhu Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 187 |
| Cornwall College | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Austell Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Par Rail Station | Rail | 5.6 km |
| Luxulyan Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
| Bugle Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
Section 09
How Foundry Drive, St Austell compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Foundry Drive, St Austell sits above that national figure — +13.7%.
Within St Austell the street ranks 279 of 708 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £153,000 (+17.0%).
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 £97,250 to £422,500. 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.
Foundry Drive, St Austell sits in Cornwall, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cornwall at 8.6 times median local earnings of £33,889 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
- Retallick Meadows£190,000 median
- Larcombe Road£155,000 median
- Century Close£169,950 median
- Sea Road£370,000 median
- Trenarren View£112,250 median
- Longpark Way£120,000 median
- Alexandra Road£133,000 median
- Trevarrick Road£120,000 median
- Charlestown Road£235,000 median
- Treverbyn Road£178,500 median
- Jubilee Meadow£150,000 median
- Killyvarder Way£135,000 median
- Edgcumbe Green£178,000 median
- Park Way£128,250 median
- Trevarthian Road£87,500 median
- Phernyssick Road£140,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 30 Foundry Drive4 sales
- 6, POLMEAR APARTMENTS Foundry Drive4 sales
- 42 Foundry Drive3 sales
- 9 Foundry Drive3 sales
- 44 Foundry Drive3 sales
- 68 Foundry Drive3 sales
- 17 Foundry Drive3 sales
- 23 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 7, POLMEAR APARTMENTS Foundry Drive2 sales
- 25 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 8 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 4, POLMEAR APARTMENTS Foundry Drive2 sales
- 4 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 76 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 18 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 16 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 27 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 15 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 7 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 24 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 34 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 31 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 43 Foundry Drive2 sales
- 72 Foundry Drive2 sales
Back to St Austell house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Foundry Drive, St Austell?
The median price paid in Foundry Drive, St Austell across every sale on the register is £179,000. 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 Foundry Drive, St Austell?
116 sales are on record for Foundry Drive, St Austell, the most recent completing on 13 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Foundry Drive, St Austell house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +76.2% between 2011 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +33.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Foundry Drive, St Austell house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £302,500, set in 2008. 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 Foundry Drive, St Austell?
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 13 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, “Foundry Drive, St Austell 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.