Lewes house prices
432 homes changed hands in Lewes in the 12 months to June 2026, at a median of £480,000. "Lewes" here is the Royal Mail post town, which reaches well beyond the town itself — Ringmer, Newick, South Chailey and North Chailey are counted in these figures, among others. That is down 1% on the £485,000 median of the twelve months before. Floor space runs at about £5,094/m², with the middle half of sales between £4,427 and £5,995 per square metre — measured on 1,388 sales matched to an EPC floor area. The terraced house is the commonest sale — 428 of the last 1,467 (29%), median £435,000.
Medians over the June 2026 extract. Price per square metre is what stops a big three-bedroom home and a small one reading as the same comparable.
The map
Every sale drawn on the freehold parcel it happened on, shaded by £/m².
The interactive sold-price and £/m² map for Lewes is in build. Everything it will show for this area is on this page already, in tables: the medians, the price by property type, the floor areas and the individual sales.
Price by property type
Medians over the three years to June 2026. Types with fewer than five sales are left out; £/m² needs at least 12 sales matched to an EPC floor area before we quote it.
| Type | Sales, 3y | Median, 3y | Median, 12m | Typical size | £/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 390 | £730,000 | £780,000 | 141 m² | £5,031/m² |
| Semi-detached | 405 | £474,500 | £474,500 | 93 m² | £5,155/m² |
| Terraced | 428 | £435,000 | £430,000 | 84 m² | £5,381/m² |
| Flat or maisonette | 244 | £250,000 | £240,000 | 60 m² | £4,426/m² |
Median by year
Calendar-year median sale price in Lewes. Years with fewer than twelve sales are omitted. Bars start at zero, so the percentages above them — measured against 2023 — are the quickest way to read the movement.
Percentages are against the 2023 median of £478,650.
The current year is still filling in. Registration follows completion by months, so its bar will keep rising after this build — read it as a partial count, not a fall.
This extract covers 3 Jan 2023 to 29 Jun 2026. A longer Price Paid history — enough for a ten-year trend, and for what a house sold for a decade ago — is a later ingest, not a gap in what is published here.
What your budget buys in Lewes
Sales between 20% below and 10% above a budget, over the three years to June 2026. The headline is floor area, because the price is the part you already fixed — what changes between towns is the space it buys. Sold prices as recorded, never indexed or adjusted.
416 homes in Lewes sold between £400,000 and £550,000 in the last three years. The median one measured 90 m² at £5,073/m².
Type mix: Semi-detached 44% · Terraced 30% · Detached 19% · Flat or maisonette 7%.
Matching sales only. Habitable rooms come from the Energy Performance Certificate and are not bedroom counts — neither register records those.
Latest recorded sales
The twenty most recent sales in Lewes as registered by HM Land Registry. Floor area comes from the property's Energy Performance Certificate where the address could be matched. Addresses with a matched certificate link to that property's sale history.
A sale appears here once the buyer's title is registered with HM Land Registry, which routinely takes months. The most recent weeks are always thinner than they will end up.
| Date | Address | Type | Size | £/m² | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Jun 2026 | 29 Cluny StreetLewes BN7 1LN | TerracedFreehold | 109 m² | £6,541/m² | £713,000 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | 83 Paddock LaneLewes BN7 1TW | TerracedFreehold | 95 m² | £7,000/m² | £665,000 |
| 18 Jun 2026 | 10 Chapel Road, Plumpton GreenLewes BN7 3DD | Semi-detachedFreehold | 92 m² | £5,326/m² | £490,000 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | 13 Nevill CrescentLewes BN7 1ND | Semi-detachedFreehold | 88 m² | £7,114/m² | £626,000 |
| 11 Jun 2026 | 5 Rushey Close, RingmerLewes BN8 5JJ | Semi-detachedFreehold | 94 m² | £5,319/m² | £500,000 |
| 11 Jun 2026 | 12 Paddock RoadLewes BN7 1UU | TerracedFreehold | 80 m² | £6,124/m² | £489,950 |
| 10 Jun 2026 | 21 West Gate, Plumpton GreenLewes BN7 3BQ | DetachedFreehold | 140 m² | £4,714/m² | £660,000 |
| 9 Jun 2026 | 38 Crisp RoadLewes BN7 2TX | Semi-detachedFreehold | 77 m² | £3,766/m² | £290,000 |
| 8 Jun 2026 | 2 Lockitt Way, KingstonLewes BN7 3LG | DetachedFreehold | 139 m² | £4,712/m² | £655,000 |
| 5 Jun 2026 | 75 Winterbourne CloseLewes BN7 1JZ | TerracedFreehold | 79 m² | £6,228/m² | £492,000 |
| 4 Jun 2026 | 42 New Heritage Way, North ChaileyLewes BN8 4GD | DetachedFreehold | 136 m² | £3,971/m² | £540,000 |
| 3 Jun 2026 | 3 Broyle Paddock, RingmerLewes BN8 5NT | Semi-detachedFreehold | 90 m² | £4,444/m² | £400,000 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 7 Mill Road, RingmerLewes BN8 5HY | TerracedFreehold | 108 m² | £4,537/m² | £490,000 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 56 East View Fields, Plumpton GreenLewes BN7 3EF | Semi-detachedFreehold | 92 m² | £4,565/m² | £420,000 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 20 Whitegates Close, South ChaileyLewes BN8 4AE | TerracedFreehold | 49 m² | £5,306/m² | £260,000 |
| 29 May 2026 | 1 Hawkenbury WayLewes BN7 1LT | DetachedFreehold | 118 m² | £7,076/m² | £835,000 |
| 26 May 2026 | 28 Mount Harry RoadLewes BN7 1NY | Semi-detachedFreehold | 89 m² | £6,180/m² | £550,000 |
| 26 May 2026 | 3 Valence RoadLewes BN7 1SH | TerracedFreehold | 61 m² | £5,582/m² | £340,500 |
| 26 May 2026 | 49 Warren DriveLewes BN7 1HD | TerracedFreehold | 60 m² | £5,500/m² | £330,000 |
| 22 May 2026 | Laburnum House Lewes Road, RingmerLewes BN8 5QD | TerracedFreehold | 123 m² | £3,821/m² | £470,000 |
Busiest streets in Lewes
The 30 streets with the most recorded sales in the three years to June 2026, and what those sales worked out at. £/m² needs 12 sales matched to a floor area before it is quoted, so most streets show a dash. Street-level lookup for every address is a later build.
| Street | Sales, 3y | Median, 3y | Typical size | £/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Court Road | 34 | £355,725 | 53 m² | £5,627/m² |
| High Street | 19 | £300,000 | 60 m² | £5,063/m² |
| Cliffe High Street | 17 | £130,000 | 41 m² | £3,158/m² |
| Station Street | 17 | £155,000 | 62 m² | £2,895/m² |
| Western Road | 17 | £430,000 | 70 m² | £5,723/m² |
| Haywards Heath RoadNorth Chailey | 16 | £492,500 | 97 m² | £4,806/m² |
| Malling Street | 16 | £542,500 | 98 m² | £6,119/m² |
| Warren Drive | 16 | £320,000 | 61 m² | £5,537/m² |
| Dressage DriveEast Hoathly | 15 | £595,000 | 121 m² | £4,595/m² |
| Springett AvenueRingmer | 15 | £407,000 | 80 m² | £4,938/m² |
| De Montfort Road | 14 | £650,000 | 97 m² | £6,362/m² |
| Holly LaneNewick | 14 | £657,500 | 120 m² | £5,715/m² |
| Delves CloseRingmer | 13 | £160,000 | 53 m² | £3,167/m² |
| Gradwell EndSouth Chailey | 13 | £480,000 | 100 m² | £4,793/m² |
| Blakes Walk | 12 | £427,500 | — | — |
| Park Drive | 12 | £363,000 | 73 m² | £4,973/m² |
| The Nurseries | 12 | £310,000 | 75 m² | £4,303/m² |
| South Way | 11 | £662,500 | — | — |
| Valence Road | 11 | £442,500 | — | — |
| East View FieldsPlumpton Green | 10 | £431,500 | — | — |
| Hereward Way | 10 | £512,500 | — | — |
| Highdown Road | 10 | £560,000 | — | — |
| Lewes RoadRingmer | 10 | £762,500 | — | — |
| Station RoadPlumpton Green | 10 | £626,250 | — | — |
| Albion Street | 9 | £310,000 | — | — |
| Eleanor Close | 9 | £210,000 | — | — |
| New Heritage WayNorth Chailey | 9 | £540,000 | — | — |
| Oldaker RoadNewick | 9 | £450,000 | — | — |
| Spences Lane | 9 | £220,000 | — | — |
| St Annes Crescent | 9 | £856,000 | — | — |
Postcode districts in Lewes
Sales in the town split by postcode district. Medians over the 3 years to june 2026. Districts with their own page are linked.
Nearby
Town pages covering the same corner of East Sussex.
Medians over the 3 years to june 2026.
Newhaven £299,975·Peacehaven £345,000·Brighton £405,000·Hove £438,500·Eastbourne £290,000·Pevensey £363,250
Up a level: East Sussex house prices·how these numbers are made
Lewes house prices: the questions
What is the average house price in Lewes?
The median sale price in Lewes was £480,000 over the 12 months to June 2026, across 432 recorded sales — half sold for less, half for more. Over the full three years the median is £475,000 from 1,467 sales, ranging from £97,000 to £4,400,000. These are HM Land Registry sold prices, not asking prices or estimates.
How much is a square metre in Lewes?
Sold homes in Lewes work out at a median of £5,094/m², with the middle half between £4,427 and £5,995 per square metre. The figure comes from 1,388 sales over three years whose address matched an Energy Performance Certificate carrying a total floor area; the median home in that set measures 92 m².
What does the Lewes post town cover?
"Lewes" here is the Royal Mail post town, which reaches well beyond the town itself — Ringmer, Newick, South Chailey and North Chailey are counted in these figures, among others. A post town is a Royal Mail sorting geography, not a council or parish boundary, and HM Land Registry records sold prices against it — so a median labelled Lewes covers the villages posted through Lewes as well as the town itself. The largest of them here are Ringmer (184 sales, median £420,000), Newick (121 sales, median £615,000), South Chailey (78 sales, median £397,500), North Chailey (58 sales, median £529,250) and Plumpton Green (56 sales, median £513,750).
Are house prices in Lewes going up or down?
The 12-month median to June 2026 is £480,000, −1% against the £485,000 of the twelve months before. Calendar-year medians: 2023 £478,650, 2024 £480,000, 2025 £490,000, 2026 £449,975. Note that 2026 is a part year — the Land Registry publishes monthly and the extract ends 29 Jun 2026 — and that a median tracks what sold, so a change in the mix of homes coming to market moves it as much as prices do.
Which type of home is cheapest in Lewes?
Of the types with at least 12 sales to compare, flat or maisonette homes are the cheapest — median £250,000 across 244 sales in three years (£4,426/m²). Detached homes sit at the top on £730,000 from 390 sales (£5,031/m²). Per square metre the order often differs from the headline price, because the cheaper types are also the smaller ones.
How much does a terraced house cost in Lewes?
The median terraced house in Lewes sold for £435,000 over three years, from 428 sales, or £430,000 over the last twelve months from 146 sales. The typical one measures 84 m², which is £5,381/m².
Which postcodes cover Lewes, and which is cheapest?
Lewes spans 2 postcode districts: BN7 (862 sales, median £480,000), BN8 (605 sales, median £475,000). BN7 is the dearest on that measure and BN8 the cheapest, a spread of £5,000. Sale mix differs between them, so read the gap as a difference in what sold, not a like-for-like premium.
How many homes sell in Lewes each year?
2023: 436, 2024: 539, 2025: 523. The current year is still filling in — HM Land Registry publishes monthly and records can arrive months after completion, so the most recent months always look thinner than they will end up.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to June 2026, joined to the MHCLG Energy Performance Certificate register for floor areas. Category B and deleted records excluded. Local authority: Lewes (92.5% of sales) · Wealden (7.5% of sales).