Scotch Street, Whitehaven house prices

Scotch Street, Whitehaven house prices are built from 78 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £75,000. Across the 23 years from 1999 to 2022 the median moved +166.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +51.5%.

HM Land Registry78 sales12 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Sep 2025

The chart tracks the median Scotch Street, Whitehaven house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Scotch Street, Whitehaven is £99,000 in 2021; the lowest is £33,375 in 1999. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £41,000 to £88,950.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,938, so the real change over the whole record is +15.9% — about +0.57% 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: +166.5% in cash against +51.5% 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.

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.

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 Scotch Street, Whitehaven values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Scotch Street, Whitehaven is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

34 of the sales on record are leasehold and 44 freehold — 43.6% 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 £51,500 and the median freehold sale £87,250 — a gap of +69.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 9 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cumberland, 37.3% of 137,831 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cumberland at £670 a month as of Jun 2026 — £499 for a one-bedroom home and £772 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £75,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.72% 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 CA28, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 7 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

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.

16 state and independent schools have a CA28 postcode: 14 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Scotch Street, Whitehaven sits below that national figure — -52.4%.

Within Whitehaven the street ranks 283 of 384 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £95,000 (-21.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £890 per square metre, across 12 of the 78 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 £12,000 to £325,000. 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.

Scotch Street, Whitehaven sits in Cumberland, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cumberland at 4.2 times median local earnings of £42,808 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.

Streets nearby

• Holly Bank£99,000 median
• High Road£86,000 median
• Moresby Parks Road£66,505 median
• Laurel Bank£136,975 median
• Buttermere Avenue£65,000 median
• Victoria Road£167,250 median
• Ullswater Avenue£87,250 median
• Main Street£62,000 median
• Winchester Drive£114,000 median
• Bransty Road£100,000 median
• Valley Park£146,500 median
• Duke Street£143,500 median
• Balmoral Road£128,500 median
• Meadow Road£74,000 median
• Foundry Road£64,000 median
• Whinlatter Road£87,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 74 Scotch Street5 sales
• 88 Scotch Street5 sales
• 25 Scotch Street4 sales
• 84 Scotch Street4 sales
• 91 Scotch Street4 sales
• 34A Scotch Street4 sales
• FLAT 1, 32 Scotch Street4 sales
• 9 Scotch Street3 sales
• 8 Scotch Street3 sales
• 94 Scotch Street3 sales
• 7 Scotch Street3 sales
• 95 Scotch Street2 sales
• 18A Scotch Street2 sales
• 31B Scotch Street2 sales
• FLAT 2, 32B Scotch Street2 sales
• 69 Scotch Street2 sales
• 35 Scotch Street2 sales
• 50 Scotch Street2 sales
• 47 Scotch Street2 sales
• 34C Scotch Street2 sales
• 33 Scotch Street2 sales

Back to Whitehaven house prices.

What is the average house price in Scotch Street, Whitehaven?

The median price paid in Scotch Street, Whitehaven across every sale on the register is £75,000. 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 Scotch Street, Whitehaven?

78 sales are on record for Scotch Street, Whitehaven, the most recent completing on 5 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Scotch Street, Whitehaven house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +166.5% between 1999 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +51.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Scotch Street, Whitehaven house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £99,000, 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 Scotch Street, Whitehaven?

£890 per square metre, from the 12 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 5 Sep 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, “Scotch Street, Whitehaven 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.