The median home in Kirkby Lonsdale sells for £341,666
That is the middle of 94 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.2 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Kirkby Lonsdale’s sales are terraced houses
94 homes sold in three years: 17 detached houses, 26 semi-detached houses, 28 terraced houses and 23 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£670K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£475K–£880K
Semi-detached houses£379K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£525K
Last 12 months
£365K9 sold
Terraced houses£338K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£190K–£450K
Last 12 months
£218K6 sold
Flats and maisonettes£190K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£164K–£250K
Last 12 months
£164K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 30% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses30%
Flats and maisonettes24%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Kirkby Lonsdale’s homes sold for between £194K and £495K
One sale in ten was under £139K and one in ten over £730K. 33% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £341,666, sits in the £300–400K band
94 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.2 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £59,950 in 1995 to £250,000 in the last 12 months (£325,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
21 sales in the last 12 months, against 77 in 2021, the busiest year, and 22 in 2017. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 48% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Kirkby Lonsdale costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Kirkby Lonsdale, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Semi-detached houses
£60K
£95K
£215K
—
£275K
£345K
£365K
Terraced houses
£60K
£85K
£230K
£175K
£247K
£258K
£218K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£66K
£210K
£185K
£183K
£165K
£164K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
5% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
139 new homes have been sold in Kirkby Lonsdale since 1995; the share peaked at 40% in 2013.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £1,170,000
against £329,166 for a home sold on, 255% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
27% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.2% sold leasehold in Kirkby Lonsdale. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
New Road is Kirkby Lonsdale’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
New Road
LA6
9
£185,000
Mostly flats
2
Modera Fold
LA6
8
£1,170,000
Mixed · new builds
3
Tram Lane
LA6
8
£282,500
Mostly flats
4
Main Street
LA6
7
£405,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Fairgarth Drive
LA6
7
£380,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Oakfield Park
LA6
6
£407,500
Mixed
7
Mitchelgate
LA6
6
£352,500
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Kirkby Lonsdale’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Kirkby Lonsdale
What is the average house price in Kirkby Lonsdale?
The median home in Kirkby Lonsdale sold for £341,666 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 94 standard sales (£250,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £670,000, semi-detached houses £379,000, terraced houses £337,500 and flats and maisonettes £190,000.
Are house prices going up in Kirkby Lonsdale?
The median was £357,500 in 2025, down 6% on 2024 (£380,000), and £250,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Kirkby Lonsdale each year?
21 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 46 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Kirkby Lonsdale?
New homes sold for a median £1,170,000 over three years, against £329,166 for homes sold on. New builds were 6.4% of sales.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0