County Durham

DH8 house prices in County Durham

Name: Sold house prices in DH8, County Durham
Creator: HM Land Registry
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for County Durham, from official UK data in one place.

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Summary

House prices in DH8: the typical (median) sold price is £126,000, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). DH8 is an active market, with about 38 recorded sales a month. By property type, 48% were terraced homes (typically £103,000) and 33% were semi-detached homes (typically £153,000).

Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.

Across the 12 most recently sold DH8 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 3 of 10, where 10 is the least deprived.

Source: Deprivation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025.

Our take · opinion, not advice

Our take on DH8: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead

DH8 is neither busy nor quiet, at about 38 sales a month, enough to learn from, though the year-on-year comparison is too thin to quote, so lean on the recent sold homes.

For sellers, detached homes typically sold for £277,500 against £103,000 for terraced homes, which explains a spread of £70,000 to £290,500, so the closest sold homes of your type say much more than the middle; buyers can compare homes at this pace but are not spoilt for choice.

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Before you offer in DH8, check planning history nearby (298 applications on record within 500 m), long-term flood risk and the energy rating (EPC), and ask your conveyancer about the title.

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At a glance

DH8 in four numbers

The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.

Typical price
£126,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
38.1
Across 250 sales
Freehold sales
95%
Of recorded sales

The data, honestly

House prices in DH8

These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.

By property type

Average house price in DH8 by property type

Detached homes have the highest typical price at £277,500, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £49,500.

Detached£277,500

Semi-detached£153,000

Terraced£103,000

Flat / maisonette£49,500

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Sales, typical price and middle-80% range by property type in DH8
Type	Sales	Typical	Range
Detached	44	£277,500	£168,000–£457,000
Semi-detached	80	£153,000	£80,000–£235,550
Terraced	117	£103,000	£68,000–£147,600
Flat / maisonette	4	£49,500	£44,950–£99,900

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Feb 2026 and 25 Aug 2026.

24-month trend

Typical price by quarter in DH8

The quarterly typical price rose 4.2%, from £120,000 in Q1 2026 (84 sales) to £125,000 in Q3 2026 (48 sales).

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Median sold price and number of recorded sales for each recent quarter in DH8
Quarter	Typical price	Sales
Q1 2026	£120,000	84
Q2 2026	£133,500	118
Q3 2026	£125,000	48

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Feb 2026 and 25 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.

Range and mix

The spread of DH8 prices

How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.

Price range

Where most DH8 homes sold

Eight in ten sales fell between £70,000 and £290,500, around a typical £126,000.

Lower end£70,000

Typical£126,000

Upper end£290,500

Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Feb 2026 and 25 Aug 2026.

Mix of homes

Who is selling in DH8

Terraced homes were 48% of recorded sales (117 of 245). 95% of sales were freehold and 5% leasehold.

Property type

Detached18%
Semi-detached33%
Terraced48%
Flat / maisonette2%

Tenure

Freehold95%
Leasehold5%

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237 freehold (95%) and 13 leasehold (5%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in DH8. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Feb 2026 and 25 Aug 2026.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.

On the map

Where DH8 sits in County Durham

The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.

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Latest sales

The most recent sales in DH8

6, BRIDGE ISLAND, CONSETT
Detached · Freehold · 25 Aug 2026
£307,000
2, THE GREEN, CONSETT
Terraced · Freehold · 18 Aug 2026
£110,000
10, RYDAL MEWS, CONSETT
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£200,000
7, BORROWDALE, CONSETT
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£165,000
66, THORNFIELD ROAD, CONSETT
Semi-detached · Freehold · 10 Aug 2026
£115,000

All sales

Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). DH8 includes the Annfield Plain & Tanfield ward.

In plain English

What the County Durham (DH8) numbers mean

The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £277,500 against £103,000 for terraced homes: about 2.7 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £70,000 and £290,500, so the median says little about any one home.
Nearly all of these sales (95%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.

This is an active district: about 38 recorded sales a month.

Based on 250 recorded sales between 6 February 2026 and 25 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Area data

What else the records hold on DH8

Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.

Council tax

What council tax costs in DH8

We don't hold published band charges for County Durham yet. Your billing authority publishes its own band table each year. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency: check a band on GOV.UK.

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities

Schools

Schools near DH8

open schools within 3 km, nearest St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill.

All schools

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill
Primary · Academies · DH8 8JD
488 m
Good · 2015
Benfieldside Primary School
Primary · Academies · DH8 0JX
692 m
Not graded
Delta Independent School
Independent schools · DH8 5DH
942 m
Not graded
The Grove Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DH8 8AP
1.2 km
Good · 2023
Derwentside College
16 plus · Colleges · DH8 5EE
1.2 km
Not graded
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Consett
Primary · Academies · DH8 6LN
1.2 km
Good · 2014
Learning for Life
Other types · DH8 6AE
1.3 km
Not graded
Consett Infant School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DH8 6AF
1.3 km
Good · 2018

School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the DH8 district centroid, not from any address.

Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 4 with a grade on record

Area context

Planning and deprivation near DH8

What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.

Planning applications

Planning activity around DH8

298

applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 19 October 2026.

Recent applications

CountyDurham/DM/26/01458/DRCPermitted
430 m
Discharge of Condition 3 (Windows and door details), Condition 6 (Cycle Storage), Condition 7 (Parking Inc EVCP) and Condition 9 (Carbon Zero) pursuant to planning application DM/23/00545/FPA (COU from church to 2no. dwellings)
Received 2026-06-08 · decided 2026-09-08
CountyDurham/DM/26/01395/FPAPermitted
459 m
Split of existing retail unit to create a new small retail unit fronting Durham Road, with associated new shopfront works. Existing retail unit to remain as existing use.
Received 2026-06-02 · decided 2026-10-09
CountyDurham/DM/26/01071/FPAUndecided
455 m
Erection of 71 dwellings with associated access, landscaping, open space and engineering works
Received 2026-04-28
CountyDurham/DM/26/00678/DRCPermitted
280 m
Discharge of Condition 3 (Materials) pursuant to DM/25/00756/FPA for a domestic extension
Received 2026-03-16 · decided 2026-05-08
CountyDurham/DM/26/00645/FPAPermitted
498 m
Fenestration alterations throughout the property in a black colour to include bi-folding doors, alterations to the two existing dormer windows to bridge them together to create one larger dormer window, erection of a triple oak timber carport.
Received 2026-03-13 · decided 2026-05-15
CountyDurham/DM/26/00099/FPAUndecided
235 m
Change of use and conversion of existing buildings to 7 no. residential units with associated works and parking
Received 2026-01-14

Applications are matched within 500 m of the DH8 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for DH8 for the current picture.

Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 298 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 19 October 2026

Deprivation (IMD)

Area profile for DH8

Decile 3 of 10

Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.

1 · most deprived10 · least deprived

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Across the 12 sampled DH8 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 2 to decile 9, with a median of decile 3 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.

DH8 5BG, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 3 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so DH8 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in DH8: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices

Address by address

What individual homes in DH8 sold for

The 24 most recently sold doors of the 249 distinct addresses in the records we hold for DH8. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.

6, BRIDGE ISLAND, CONSETT
DH8 9TB · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£307,000
2026-08-25
2, THE GREEN, CONSETT
DH8 5BG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£110,000
2026-08-18
10, RYDAL MEWS, CONSETT
DH8 6EJ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£200,000
2026-08-14
7, BORROWDALE, CONSETT
DH8 6EQ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£165,000
2026-08-14
66, THORNFIELD ROAD, CONSETT
DH8 8AY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£115,000
2026-08-10
22, ROMANY DRIVE, CONSETT
DH8 5XL · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£108,000
2026-08-07
6, KENSINGTON CLOSE, CONSETT
DH8 5YN · Detached · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£262,000
2026-08-07
1, ST ANDREWS CRESCENT, CONSETT
DH8 8NU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£175,000
2026-08-07
3, BARLEY MILL CRESCENT, CONSETT
DH8 8JZ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£89,000
2026-08-06
7, ROSEBERRY TERRACE, CONSETT
DH8 5RG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£107,000
2026-08-05
41, ASHFIELD, CONSETT
DH8 0RF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£160,000
2026-08-04
33, GEORGE STREET, CONSETT
DH8 0AE · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£125,000
2026-07-31
27, DELVEDERE, CONSETT
DH8 7HF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£70,000
2026-07-31
41, GILL STREET, CONSETT
DH8 7JT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£93,000
2026-07-30
95, DURHAM ROAD, CONSETT
DH8 7QY · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£68,000
2026-07-30
33, OLEY MEADOWS, CONSETT
DH8 0JF · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£593,000
2026-07-29
11, FIRST STREET, CONSETT
DH8 6JS · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£105,000
2026-07-28
66, SNOWS GREEN ROAD, CONSETT
DH8 0ER · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£250,000
2026-07-28
118, FENWICK WAY, CONSETT
DH8 5FE · Detached · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£222,000
2026-07-28
17, WEST VIEW, CONSETT
DH8 6PB · Terraced · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£44,000
2026-07-27
1, CHAPEL DRIVE, CONSETT
DH8 7EW · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£90,000
2026-07-27
10, UNSWORTH GARDENS, CONSETT
DH8 5RX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£105,000
2026-07-24
26, COTHERSTONE CLOSE, CONSETT
DH8 7UE · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£285,000
2026-07-24
30A, THOMAS STREET, CONSETT
DH8 0AB · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£105,000
2026-07-24

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.

Questions, answered

The DH8 report: your questions

What is the average house price in DH8?

The typical (median) sold price in DH8 is £126,000, from 250 recorded sales between 6 February 2026 and 25 August 2026. Most sales fell between £70,000 and £290,500. That is well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index averages). A median is the middle sale, so a few very expensive homes do not pull it up the way they pull up an average.

What does each type of home cost in DH8?

Typical sold prices by type in DH8: terraced homes £103,000 (117 sales), semi-detached homes £153,000 (80 sales), detached homes £277,500 (44 sales), flats £49,500 (4 sales). Use the figure for your type of home rather than the all-homes median.

Which schools are near DH8?

The Department for Education's register lists 8 open schools within 3 km of the DH8 district centre, the nearest being St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill (last Ofsted grade: Good). These are nearest by straight-line distance from the district centroid. They are not catchment or admission areas, which councils set individually and do not publish centrally.

How up to date are the DH8 sold prices?

Sold prices come from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering sales up to 28 August 2026. The store is rebuilt monthly. New sales can take several weeks to appear in the official register after completion, so the very latest transactions may not show yet.

Is DH8 a deprived area?

On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, the 12 DH8 postcodes we sampled (the ones with the most recent recorded sales, not a random sample) run from decile 2 to decile 9, with a median of decile 3 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. Deprivation is published for small areas, not postcode districts, so a district like DH8 usually spans several. It is area context, never a judgement on an individual home.

Have there been planning applications near DH8?

The last check of the local planning authority register found 298 applications within 500 m of the DH8 district centre; the most recent are listed on this page with their reference, description and status as the authority published them. For an up-to-the-minute search, use the planning tool with your full postcode.

Can I see what an individual address in DH8 sold for?

Yes. This page lists the 24 most recently sold doors of the 249 distinct addresses in the records we hold for DH8, each with its price and date. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so a home that has never been sold does not appear; and we link an address to its own property page only where the match is certain, never by guessing.

Does DH8 cover my exact street?

DH8 is the outward half of the postcode and covers the whole district, so the district-wide figures on this page are medians and ranges, not a valuation of any single property. The address list gives you the door-level picture, and the free checks take a full postcode.

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Crime rate

Street-level reported crime from Police.UK, by category.

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EPC ratings

Energy certificates A–G from the GOV.UK register.

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Data sources

Every DH8 figure is official and dated

Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.

HM Land RegistrySold prices
MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
Department for Education · OfstedSchools
Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
Police.UKStreet-level crime
Environment AgencyFlood risk
postcodes.io · ONSGeography

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.