County Durham
DL17 house prices in County Durham
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for County Durham, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£83,999
Range £39,999–£193,700 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Oct 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in DL17: the typical (median) sold price is £83,999, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). DL17 is an active market, with about 26 recorded sales a month. By property type, 54% were terraced homes (typically £60,000) and 33% were semi-detached homes (typically £110,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Across the 12 most recently sold DL17 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 2 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 DL17: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead
DL17 is neither busy nor quiet, at about 26 sales a month, which suits pricing from the latest sold homes better than from any single average or trend.
When selling here, £83,999 is only the middle of a market that runs from £39,999 to £193,700, so lean on the nearest like-for-like sale rather than the middle figure; sales arrive at a steady pace, so there is no need to rush to a low price.
Sell houseFor buyers, typical prices in DL17 sit well below the UK average, so find out why prices run lower here before deciding it is good value.
Do your own homework first: planning history nearby (65 applications on record within 500 m), flood risk over the long term and the EPC rating, then hand the title to your conveyancer.
Where the numbers are this loose, the free DL17 OfferCheck gives you something firmer to hold: flood, crime, planning and council tax, each with its source.
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At a glance
DL17 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£83,999
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
25.9
Across 250 sales
Freehold sales
98%
Of recorded sales
The data, honestly
House prices in DL17
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in DL17 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £210,000, and terraced the lowest at £60,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 28 | £210,000 | £150,650–£355,500 |
| Flat / maisonette | 3 | £115,000 | £55,400–£115,000 |
| Semi-detached | 82 | £110,000 | £64,400–£160,900 |
| Terraced | 132 | £60,000 | £39,905–£97,450 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Oct 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in DL17
The quarterly typical price was flat, from £91,750 in Q4 2025 (76 sales) to £91,999 in Q3 2026 (25 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2025 | £91,750 | 76 |
| Q1 2026 | £86,500 | 88 |
| Q2 2026 | £65,000 | 61 |
| Q3 2026 | £91,999 | 25 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Oct 2025 and 14 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of DL17 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most DL17 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £39,999 and £193,700, around a typical £83,999.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Oct 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in DL17
Terraced homes were 54% of recorded sales (132 of 245). 98% of sales were freehold and 2% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached11%
- Flat / maisonette1%
- Semi-detached33%
- Terraced54%
Tenure
- Freehold98%
- Leasehold2%
See the figures
244 freehold (98%) and 6 leasehold (2%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in DL17. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Oct 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
38, RAVENSWORTH ROAD, FERRYHILL
£70,000 (2025)£128,999 (2026)+84.3% over 0.6 yrs (+195.6%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where DL17 sits in County Durham
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in DL17
11, HENSON CLOSE, FERRYHILL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£135,000
10, COMMERCIAL STREET, FERRYHILL
Terraced · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£39,999
30, CLEVES AVENUE, FERRYHILL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 5 Aug 2026
£160,000
11, BYRON ROAD, FERRYHILL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 31 Jul 2026
£112,000
16, CUTHBERT ROAD, FERRYHILL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 31 Jul 2026
£75,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). DL17 includes the Aycliffe North & Middridge ward.
In plain English
What the County Durham (DL17) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £210,000 against £60,000 for terraced homes: about 3.5 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £39,999 and £193,700, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (98%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 26 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 24 October 2025 and 14 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 DL17
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 DL17
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 DL17
8
open schools within 3 km, nearest The Woodlands.
All schools
The Woodlands
Local authority maintained schools · DL17 8AN
873 m
Good · 2016
Broom Cottages Primary & Nursery School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DL17 8AN
873 m
Good · 2022
Ferryhill Station Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DL17 0DB
920 m
Good · 2022
Cleves Cross Primary and Nursery School Academy
Primary · Academies · DL17 8QY
1.1 km
Outstanding · 2012
Dean Bank Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DL17 8PP
1.5 km
Requires improvement · 2024
Aycliffe Secure Centre
Other types · DL17 0SD
2.0 km
Not graded
Ferryhill School
Middle deemed secondary · Academies · DL17 8RW
2.2 km
Good · 2014
Chilton Academy
Primary · Academies · DL17 0PT
2.5 km
Good · 2011
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 DL17 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 7 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near DL17
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 DL17
65
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 20 October 2026.
Recent applications
CountyDurham/DM/26/00820/FPAPermitted
325 m
Erection of first floor extension above existing building
Received 2026-03-30 · decided 2026-07-01
CountyDurham/DM/26/00475/FPAPermitted
478 m
Single Storey Rear Extension
Received 2026-02-26 · decided 2026-04-09
CountyDurham/DM/24/02193/FPAPermitted
349 m
Relocation of existing boundary fence and reduction in its height to1.8m and planting of hedge
Received 2024-08-08 · decided 2025-03-28
CountyDurham/DM/24/02191/FPAPermitted
349 m
Detached domestic garage
Received 2024-08-08 · decided 2024-11-07
CountyDurham/DM/24/00045/TPORejected
490 m
T1 - Fraxinus excelsior (Ash) - Reduce by 50%
Received 2024-01-08 · decided 2024-03-12
CountyDurham/DM/22/00929/FPAPermitted
339 m
Change of use from a place of worship to a dance studio (Class Ed)
Received 2022-03-29 · decided 2022-06-16
Applications are matched within 500 m of the DL17 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 DL17 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 65 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 20 October 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for DL17
Decile 2 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled DL17 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 1 to decile 5, with a median of decile 2 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
DL17 8BN, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 2 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 DL17 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in DL17: 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
Address by address
What individual homes in DL17 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 237 distinct addresses in the records we hold for DL17. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
11, HENSON CLOSE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0BF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£135,000
2026-08-14
10, COMMERCIAL STREET, FERRYHILL
DL17 0DF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£39,999
2026-08-14
30, CLEVES AVENUE, FERRYHILL
DL17 8BN · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£160,000
2026-08-05
11, BYRON ROAD, FERRYHILL
DL17 0HX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£112,000
2026-07-31
16, CUTHBERT ROAD, FERRYHILL
DL17 9LY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£75,000
2026-07-31
32, ST AIDANS WAY, FERRYHILL
DL17 0AT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£140,000
2026-07-31
37, GRANVILLE DRIVE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0RG · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£110,000
2026-07-31
40, HENSON CLOSE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0BF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£122,000
2026-07-30
9, FIRWOOD TERRACE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0DG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£20,000
2026-07-30
2, MASON GARDENS, FERRYHILL
DL17 0DY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£162,500
2026-07-24
42, NORTH STREET, FERRYHILL
DL17 8HX · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£56,000
2026-07-24
19, FORD TERRACE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0JG · Terraced · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£91,999
2026-07-23
18, FERVERSHAM TERRACE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0BW · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£47,500
2026-07-20
19, GRASMERE ROAD, FERRYHILL
DL17 8HD · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£120,000
2026-07-17
55, DAVY STREET, FERRYHILL
DL17 8PN · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£52,000
2026-07-17
22, PROSPECT TERRACE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0PX · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£70,000
2026-07-17
MERRINGTON MILL HOUSE, FERRYHILL
DL17 0ND · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£550,000
2026-07-14
24, ROOKERY GARDENS, FERRYHILL
DL17 0LR · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£380,000
2026-07-14
47, CHURCH LANE, FERRYHILL
DL17 8LP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£85,000
2026-07-10
8, THE OVAL, FERRYHILL
DL17 9NU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£101,000
2026-07-08
2, RAISBY TERRACE, FERRYHILL
DL17 9PE · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£86,000
2026-07-06
6, FARADAY STREET, FERRYHILL
DL17 8PE · Terraced · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£71,279
2026-07-02
1, BEAUMONT STREET, FERRYHILL
DL17 8PH · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£30,500
2026-07-02
17, MASON GARDENS, FERRYHILL
DL17 0DY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£161,000
2026-07-01
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.
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Nearby
Postcode districts near DL17
The closest districts to DL17 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in DL16 (Spennymoor) 2.9 miles
- House prices in DL5 (Newton Aycliffe) 4.6 miles
- House prices in TS29 (Trimdon Station) 5.3 miles
- House prices in DL4 (Shildon) 5.4 miles
- House prices in DH6 (Durham) 5.9 miles
- House prices in TS21 (Stockton-on-Tees) 5.9 miles
- House prices in DL14 (Bishop Auckland) 6.3 miles
- House prices in DH1 (Durham) 7.1 miles
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Data sources
Every DL17 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.