Chaucer Road, Workington house prices

Chaucer Road, Workington house prices are built from 222 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £93,250. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +67.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.5%.

HM Land Registry222 sales71 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Apr 2026

The chart tracks the median Chaucer Road, Workington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 Chaucer Road, Workington is £230,000 in 2023; the lowest is £44,060 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £44,060 to £229,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,834, so the real change over the whole record is +139.2% — about +2.95% 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: +67.8% in cash against +19.5% 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 Chaucer Road, Workington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

10 of the sales on record are leasehold and 212 freehold — 4.5% 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 £179,975 and the median freehold sale £89,675 — a gap of -50.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.5%. 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.

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 £93,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.62% 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 CA14, 180 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 108 violent, 6 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 5 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.

20 state and independent schools have a CA14 postcode: 16 primary, 3 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chaucer Road, Workington sits below that national figure — -40.8%.

Within Workington the street ranks 223 of 461 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £89,000 (+4.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,750 per square metre, across 71 of the 222 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 £39,000 to £300,000. 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.

Chaucer Road, Workington 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

• Main Road£105,000 median
• Moss Bay Road£53,000 median
• Harrington Road£69,725 median
• Meadow Vale£88,495 median
• Church Road£72,000 median
• Corporation Road£85,000 median
• Moorlands Drive£90,500 median
• Victoria Road£62,000 median
• Cumberland Street£65,000 median
• John Street£70,000 median
• Gray Street£77,000 median
• Hazelgrove£147,500 median
• Hartington Street£69,250 median
• Vulcans Lane£76,650 median
• Frostoms Road£83,000 median
• Pica Cottages£41,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 57 Chaucer Road6 sales
• 166 Chaucer Road6 sales
• 55A Chaucer Road6 sales
• 158 Chaucer Road6 sales
• 168 Chaucer Road5 sales
• 81 Chaucer Road5 sales
• 80 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 100 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 98 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 40 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 142 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 90 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 83 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 73 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 160 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 122 Chaucer Road4 sales
• 47 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 96 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 21 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 136 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 170 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 88 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 102 Chaucer Road3 sales
• 51 Chaucer Road3 sales

Back to Workington house prices.

What is the average house price in Chaucer Road, Workington?

The median price paid in Chaucer Road, Workington across every sale on the register is £93,250. 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 Chaucer Road, Workington?

222 sales are on record for Chaucer Road, Workington, the most recent completing on 23 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Chaucer Road, Workington house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +67.8% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Chaucer Road, Workington house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £230,000, set in 2023. 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 Chaucer Road, Workington?

£1,750 per square metre, from the 71 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 23 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, “Chaucer Road, Workington 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.