Chestnut Drive, Stone house prices are built from 114 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 24 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £81,000. Across the 10 years from 2004 to 2014 the median moved +0.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.6%.
Median price paid
£81,000
Change in cash, 2004–2014
+0.2%
Change in real terms
-22.6%
HM Land Registry114 salesLatest sale 24 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Chestnut Drive, Stone prices moved
The chart tracks the median Chestnut Drive, Stone house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2014. 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 | 1 | £35,950 | £79,826 |
| 2000s | 8 | £81,125 | £147,786 |
| 2010s | 1 | £81,250 | £114,563 |
The highest yearly median on record for Chestnut Drive, Stone is £96,000 in 2007; the lowest is £35,950 in 1999. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £35,950 to £81,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £73,251, so the real change over the whole record is +59.1% — 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: +0.2% in cash against -22.6% 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 | 24 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £116,000 | £118,522 |
| 9 | 24 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £116,000 | £118,522 |
| 17 | 16 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 9 | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £92,071 |
| 28 | 28 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 18 | 17 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £113,448 |
| 24 | 22 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £101,000 | £117,017 |
| 20 | 20 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £92,500 | £107,169 |
| 2 | 5 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £106,590 |
| 18 | 1 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £104,273 |
| 23 | 15 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £106,129 |
| 21 | 15 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £91,500 | £115,605 |
| 17 | 16 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £104,638 |
| 24 | 30 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £84,500 | £112,613 |
| 22 | 30 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £83,500 | £111,281 |
| 21 | 27 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £117,046 |
| 1 | 16 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £84,500 | £115,005 |
| 3 | 3 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £108,880 |
| 9 | 25 Nov 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £118,663 |
| 22 | 21 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £81,000 | £113,079 |
| 29 | 4 Jul 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £115,871 |
| 2 | 9 Oct 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £81,000 | £114,210 |
| 9 | 24 Nov 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £81,250 | £116,544 |
| 5 | 21 Nov 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £120,488 |
| 21 | 10 Jul 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £123,357 |
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 Chestnut Drive, Stone values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Chestnut Drive | £34,950 (2000) | £116,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 23 Chestnut Drive | £34,950 (1999) | £116,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 17 Chestnut Drive | £38,950 (2000) | £110,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 28 Chestnut Drive | £35,950 (1999) | £115,000 (2024) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 18 Chestnut Drive | £34,950 (2000) | £105,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 24 Chestnut Drive | £35,950 (2000) | £101,000 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.2% |
| 20 Chestnut Drive | £35,450 (1999) | £92,500 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.7% |
| 2 Chestnut Drive | £36,950 (2000) | £92,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
| 21 Chestnut Drive | £38,950 (1999) | £91,500 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.7% |
| 22 Chestnut Drive | £38,950 (2000) | £83,500 (2018) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 1 Chestnut Drive | £35,950 (2000) | £84,500 (2017) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 3 Chestnut Drive | £36,950 (2000) | £80,000 (2017) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chestnut Drive, Stone 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 | 99 | 86.8% | £81,000 | £34,950 – £116,000 |
| Terraced | 12 | 10.5% | £75,000 | £34,950 – £90,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 2.6% | £350,000 | £245,000 – £400,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Chestnut Drive, Stone
111 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3 freehold — 97.4% 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 £80,000 and the median freehold sale £350,000 — a gap of +337.5%. 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 | 111 | 97.4% | £80,000 |
| Freehold | 3 | 2.6% | £350,000 |
| New build | 28 | 24.6% | £36,950 |
| Existing home | 86 | 75.4% | £84,975 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -56.5%. 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 1 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 Chestnut Drive, Stone
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Stafford, 45.0% of 64,353 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 628 | 1.0% |
| B | 9,730 | 15.1% |
| C | 18,590 | 28.9% |
| D | 23,386 | 36.3% |
| E | 8,675 | 13.5% |
| F | 2,596 | 4.0% |
| G | 748 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Stafford at £896 a month as of Jun 2026 — £627 for a one-bedroom home and £972 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £81,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.27% 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 ST15, 115 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 48 violent, 3 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 24 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.
Against the 136,867 residents the 2021 census counted in Stafford, that is 0.84 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 Chestnut Drive, Stone
The 2021 census counted 136,867 residents in Stafford across 60,047 households. 70.8% of those households own their home and 29.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a ST15 postcode: 7 primary, 2 middle deemed secondary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alleyne's Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 846 |
| Walton Priory Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Community school | 542 |
| Christ Church Academy | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 540 |
| Manor Hill First School | Primary | Academy converter | 260 |
| Pirehill First School | Primary | Community school | 245 |
| St Dominic's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 221 |
| St Michael's CofE (C) First School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 184 |
| Springfields First School | Primary | Community school | 138 |
| Christ Church CofE First School | Primary | Academy converter | 120 |
| Oulton CofE First School | Primary | Academy converter | 77 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Norton Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Barlaston Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Wedgwood Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Chestnut Drive, Stone compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chestnut Drive, Stone sits below that national figure — -48.6%.
Within Stone the street ranks 393 of 410 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £155,000 (-47.7%).
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 £34,950 to £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.
Chestnut Drive, Stone sits in Stafford, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Stafford at 7.5 times median local earnings of £34,832 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
- Navigation Loop£170,000 median
- Oulton Road£127,625 median
- Stafford Street£100,500 median
- Old Road£109,000 median
- Newcastle Road£140,000 median
- Manor Rise£65,500 median
- Lichfield Road£205,000 median
- Crown Street£164,918 median
- Kingsland Road£93,750 median
- The Fillybrooks£135,000 median
- Blundell Drive£244,000 median
- Victor Street£112,000 median
- Churchill Road£63,000 median
- Taverners Drive£97,750 median
- Simeon Way£98,950 median
- Walton Way£72,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 9 Chestnut Drive8 sales
- 23 Chestnut Drive7 sales
- 18 Chestnut Drive6 sales
- 29 Chestnut Drive6 sales
- 25 Chestnut Drive6 sales
- 24 Chestnut Drive5 sales
- 20 Chestnut Drive5 sales
- 21 Chestnut Drive5 sales
- 22 Chestnut Drive5 sales
- 1 Chestnut Drive5 sales
- 27 Chestnut Drive5 sales
- 17 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- 28 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- 2 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- 3 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- 5 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- 4 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- 19 Chestnut Drive4 sales
- CHESTNUT HOUSE Chestnut Drive3 sales
- 14 Chestnut Drive3 sales
- 11 Chestnut Drive3 sales
- 12 Chestnut Drive3 sales
- 8 Chestnut Drive2 sales
- 15 Chestnut Drive2 sales
Back to Stone house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Chestnut Drive, Stone?
The median price paid in Chestnut Drive, Stone across every sale on the register is £81,000. 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 Chestnut Drive, Stone?
114 sales are on record for Chestnut Drive, Stone, the most recent completing on 24 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Chestnut Drive, Stone house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +0.2% between 2004 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Chestnut Drive, Stone house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £96,000, set in 2007. 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 Chestnut Drive, Stone?
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 24 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, “Chestnut Drive, Stone 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.