Lower Road, Sudbury house prices are built from 97 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 28 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £210,000. Across the 18 years from 2004 to 2022 the median moved -17.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -48.4%.
Median price paid
£210,000
Change in cash, 2004–2022
-17.3%
Change in real terms
-48.4%
HM Land Registry97 salesLatest sale 28 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Lower Road, Sudbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Road, Sudbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £155,000 | £344,173 |
| 2000s | 2 | £98,000 | £178,527 |
| 2010s | 2 | £247,500 | £348,975 |
| 2020s | 2 | £160,000 | £163,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Road, Sudbury is £426,250 in 2021; the lowest is £98,000 in 2002. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £155,000 to £160,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £328,647, so the real change over the whole record is -43.6% — about -2.26% 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: -17.3% in cash against -48.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southview | 28 Apr 2026 | Detached | £535,000 | £535,000 |
| 2 the Old Pumping Station | 3 Oct 2025 | Detached | £585,000 | £597,717 |
| Crossing Cottage | 11 Jul 2025 | Detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Babel Green Farm | 27 Mar 2025 | Detached | £308,000 | £314,696 |
| Lingmell | 7 Jan 2025 | Detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| Brooke House | 23 Jan 2024 | Detached | £530,000 | £557,687 |
| 3 the Sidings | 6 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £161,000 | £173,954 |
| 3 the Old Pumping Station | 12 Jan 2023 | Detached | £630,000 | £680,690 |
| 1 the Sidings | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 4 the Sidings | 10 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 1 the Old Pumping Station | 16 Sep 2022 | Detached | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| 3 the Sidings | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £133,000 | £154,092 |
| Cornfields Cottage, 2 | 15 Feb 2022 | Detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| The Willows | 29 Sep 2021 | Detached | £605,000 | £764,382 |
| Station House | 22 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £452,500 | £571,707 |
| 2 | 13 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| Tudor Cottage | 7 May 2021 | Detached | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| Little Foxes | 18 Feb 2021 | Detached | £575,000 | £726,478 |
| Restholme | 25 Jan 2021 | Detached | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| River Cottage | 24 Jun 2020 | Detached | £570,000 | £738,017 |
| 2 Three Turns | 30 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £338,000 | £442,096 |
| 3 the Sidings | 10 Oct 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £153,261 |
| Lingmell | 12 Sep 2018 | Detached | £450,000 | £599,716 |
| 5 | 3 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £244,995 | £326,506 |
| 1 | 15 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £355,000 | £473,110 |
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 Lower Road, Sudbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHVIEW Lower Road | £150,000 (1997) | £535,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 2 the OLD PUMPING STATION Lower Road | £200,000 (2007) | £585,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.1% |
| LINGMELL Lower Road | £159,995 (1998) | £500,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 3 the SIDINGS Lower Road | £115,000 (2018) | £161,000 (2023) | +7.0% | +2.6% |
| 1 the SIDINGS Lower Road | £92,000 (2004) | £150,000 (2022) | +2.8% | +0.1% |
| 4 the SIDINGS Lower Road | £94,000 (2002) | £160,000 (2022) | +2.7% | +0.1% |
| CORNFIELDS COTTAGE, 2 Lower Road | £310,000 (2010) | £495,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| THE WILLOWS Lower Road | £455,000 (2007) | £605,000 (2021) | +2.1% | -0.2% |
| STATION HOUSE Lower Road | £294,000 (2008) | £452,500 (2021) | +3.4% | +1.1% |
| 2 Lower Road | £110,000 (2002) | £210,000 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.2% |
| TUDOR COTTAGE Lower Road | £69,950 (1998) | £310,000 (2021) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
| LITTLE FOXES Lower Road | £184,995 (1997) | £575,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Road, Sudbury 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 | 61 | 62.9% | £308,000 | £69,950 – £770,000 |
| Semi-detached | 17 | 17.5% | £200,000 | £30,000 – £452,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 15 | 15.5% | £115,000 | £78,500 – £161,000 |
| Terraced | 4 | 4.1% | £147,000 | £146,000 – £355,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Road, Sudbury
15 of the sales on record are leasehold and 82 freehold — 15.5% 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 £115,000 and the median freehold sale £257,500 — a gap of +123.9%. 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 | 15 | 15.5% | £115,000 |
| Freehold | 82 | 84.5% | £257,500 |
| New build | 9 | 9.3% | £158,000 |
| Existing home | 88 | 90.7% | £244,998 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -35.5%. 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 8 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 Lower Road, Sudbury
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Babergh, 43.0% of 43,823 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 389 | 0.9% |
| B | 6,268 | 14.3% |
| C | 12,181 | 27.8% |
| D | 14,574 | 33.3% |
| E | 7,180 | 16.4% |
| F | 2,592 | 5.9% |
| G | 639 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Babergh at £970 a month as of Jun 2026 — £720 for a one-bedroom home and £1,116 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £210,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.54% 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 CO10, 26 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 8 violent, 1 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.4 times quieter.
Against the 92,341 residents the 2021 census counted in Babergh, that is 0.28 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 Lower Road, Sudbury
The 2021 census counted 92,341 residents in Babergh across 40,200 households. 71.8% of those households own their home and 28.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
20 state and independent schools have a CO10 postcode: 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Gainsborough School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,603 |
| Ormiston Sudbury Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 710 |
| Stour Valley Community School | Secondary | Free schools | 569 |
| Wells Hall Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 494 |
| Woodhall Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 448 |
| Tudor Church of England Primary School, Sudbury | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 268 |
| Glemsford Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 243 |
| Pot Kiln Primary School | Primary | Community school | 236 |
| St Gregory Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 227 |
| Long Melford Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sudbury (Suffolk) Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Bures Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
| Chappel & Wakes Colne Rail Station | Rail | 15.0 km |
| Marks Tey Rail Station | Rail | 20.2 km |
Section 09
How Lower Road, Sudbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Road, Sudbury sits above that national figure — +33.3%.
Within Sudbury the street ranks 350 of 764 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £183,000 (+14.8%).
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 £30,000 to £770,000. 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.
Lower Road, Sudbury sits in Babergh, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Babergh at 10.6 times median local earnings of £30,929 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
- The Street£242,500 median
- High Street£233,250 median
- Melford Road£205,000 median
- Lucas Road£68,500 median
- Bures Road£232,000 median
- Talbot Road£119,995 median
- Kings Road£118,000 median
- Waldingfield Road£185,000 median
- Church Street£182,500 median
- Mallard Way£75,500 median
- Hall Street£242,500 median
- Clermont Avenue£219,995 median
- Church Road£250,000 median
- Egremont Street£124,000 median
- Ballingdon Street£151,000 median
- Queens Road£171,838 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2 Lower Road4 sales
- TUDOR COTTAGE Lower Road4 sales
- 1, THREE TURNS Lower Road4 sales
- THE ISLAND HOUSE Lower Road4 sales
- LINGMELL Lower Road3 sales
- 3, the SIDINGS Lower Road3 sales
- 1, the SIDINGS Lower Road3 sales
- 4, the SIDINGS Lower Road3 sales
- STATION HOUSE Lower Road3 sales
- 2, THREE TURNS Lower Road3 sales
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGE Lower Road3 sales
- BONNIEBURN Lower Road3 sales
- BROOKSIDE Lower Road3 sales
- RUSHBROOKE HOUSE Lower Road3 sales
- OLD TURNERS Lower Road3 sales
- SOUTHVIEW Lower Road2 sales
- 2, the OLD PUMPING STATION Lower Road2 sales
- CORNFIELDS COTTAGE, 2 Lower Road2 sales
- THE WILLOWS Lower Road2 sales
- LITTLE FOXES Lower Road2 sales
- RIVER COTTAGE Lower Road2 sales
- 1 Lower Road2 sales
- 5, the SIDINGS Lower Road2 sales
- 6, the SIDINGS Lower Road2 sales
Back to Sudbury house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Road, Sudbury?
The median price paid in Lower Road, Sudbury across every sale on the register is £210,000. 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 Lower Road, Sudbury?
97 sales are on record for Lower Road, Sudbury, the most recent completing on 28 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Road, Sudbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -17.3% between 2004 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -48.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Road, Sudbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £426,250, set in 2021. 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 Lower Road, Sudbury?
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 28 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, “Lower Road, Sudbury 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.