Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0The median home in Barnston sells for £517,500
That is the middle of 36 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 8.1 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.
56% of Barnston’s sales are detached houses
36 homes sold in three years: 20 detached houses, 14 semi-detached houses, 1 terraced houses and 1 flats and maisonettes.
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £664K–£1M
- Last 12 months
- £680K12 sold
median sale · 14 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £345K–£410K
Terraced houses: 1 sold
Flats and maisonettes: 1 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
Mostly detached: 56% of homes sold stand on their own plot
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.
Half of Barnston’s homes sold for between £400K and £775K
One sale in ten was under £330K and one in ten over £1.1M. 3% sold for under £250K.
The median, £517,500, sits in the £500–750K band
36 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
The typical home costs 8.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £83,000 in 1995 to £670,000 in the last 12 months.
More homes sell than in most years
16 sales in the last 12 months, against 27 in 1999, the busiest year, and 3 in 2008.
Barnston costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Barnston, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
Each type, year by year
| 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Last 12 months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached houses | £139K | — | £350K | — | £415K | — | £680K |
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.
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
10 new homes have been sold in Barnston since 1995; the share peaked at 30% in 1998.
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Barnston. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Rayfield Close is Barnston’s busiest street, with 10 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. 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 | Rayfield Close | CM6 | 10 | £350,000 | Mostly semi-detached houses |
| 2 | Chelmsford Road | CM6 | 8 | £902,125 | Mostly detached houses |
| 3 | Barnston Green | CM6 | 5 | £420,000 | Mostly semi-detached 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.
Barnston’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Little Dunmow, Great Dunmow and Takeley and Little Canfield.
| Town | Miles | Median | Sold, 12 mo | Since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnston | — | £518K | 16 | +31% |
| Little Dunmow | 1.3 | £429K | 60 | +24% |
| Great Dunmow | 1.8 | £428K | 151 | +32% |
| Felsted | 2.2 | £779K | 14 | +118% |
| Stebbing | 3.3 | £473K | 17 | +4% |
| Takeley and Little Canfield | 4.8 | £450K | 59 | +22% |
| Rayne | 5.4 | £345K | 8 | +21% |
| Great Leighs | 5.5 | £450K | 26 | +34% |
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 Barnston
What is the average house price in Barnston?
The median home in Barnston sold for £517,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 36 standard sales (£670,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £745,000 and semi-detached houses £387,500.
How many homes sell in Barnston each year?
16 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 11 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.
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