Forest of Dean
GL15 house prices in Forest of Dean
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Forest of Dean, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£260,000
Range £160,000–£431,000 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Oct 2025 and 19 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in GL15: the typical (median) sold price is £260,000, close to the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). GL15 is an active market, with about 25 recorded sales a month. By property type, 39% were detached homes (typically £350,000) and 36% were semi-detached homes (typically £237,500).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Council tax on a Band D home there is £2,443 a year: Forest of Dean's published charge for 2026-27.
Source: Council tax: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Forest of Dean, 2026-27.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on GL15: steady sales, so price from the evidence
GL15 sees about 25 sales a month, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
If you are thinking of selling, GL15 buyers have mostly paid between £160,000 and £431,000, so find the sold homes closest to yours and price against those; roughly 25 sales a month is enough for buyers to compare, so evidence beats optimism.
Sell houseIf you are looking to buy, typical prices in GL15 sit close to the UK average, so the sold homes of your type are the yardstick to hold an asking price to.
Before an offer goes in on any GL15 home, look at long-term flood risk, council tax (Band D is £2,443 a year) and what has been built or proposed nearby, and leave the title to your conveyancer.
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At a glance
GL15 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£260,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
24.9
Across 250 sales
Council tax, Band D
£2,443
A year
On the map
Where GL15 sits in Forest of Dean
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in GL15
BARLEY CROFT, LYDNEY
Detached · Freehold · 19 Aug 2026
£515,000
35, IRONSTONE CLOSE, LYDNEY
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£255,000
57, WOODLAND RISE, LYDNEY
Terraced · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£185,000
29, RUSHY LEAZE, LYDNEY
Semi-detached · Freehold · 10 Aug 2026
£207,000
13, WOODLAND ROAD, LYDNEY
Semi-detached · Freehold · 10 Aug 2026
£260,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). GL15 includes the Bream ward.
The data, honestly
House prices in GL15
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in GL15 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £350,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £116,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 94 | £350,000 | £246,500–£575,000 |
| Semi-detached | 87 | £237,500 | £160,000–£308,500 |
| Terraced | 51 | £205,000 | £170,000–£260,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 10 | £116,000 | £64,400–£142,000 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Oct 2025 and 19 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in GL15
The quarterly typical price was flat, from £260,000 in Q4 2025 (87 sales) to £260,000 in Q3 2026 (23 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2025 | £260,000 | 87 |
| Q1 2026 | £244,000 | 82 |
| Q2 2026 | £272,500 | 58 |
| Q3 2026 | £260,000 | 23 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Oct 2025 and 19 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of GL15 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most GL15 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £160,000 and £431,000, around a typical £260,000.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Oct 2025 and 19 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in GL15
Detached homes were 39% of recorded sales (94 of 242). 94% of sales were freehold and 6% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached39%
- Semi-detached36%
- Terraced21%
- Flat / maisonette4%
Tenure
- Freehold94%
- Leasehold6%
See the figures
234 freehold (94%) and 16 leasehold (6%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in GL15, including 7 new-build sales. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Oct 2025 and 19 Aug 2026.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
In plain English
What the Forest of Dean (GL15) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £350,000 against £116,000 for flats: about 3.0 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Nearly all of these sales (94%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 25 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 17 October 2025 and 19 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 GL15
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 GL15
£2,443
Band D a year in Forest of Dean, 2026-27: the benchmark band every English authority is compared on.
All bands
| Band | 1991 value | A year |
|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,629 |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £1,900 |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,172 |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,443 |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £2,986 |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,529 |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,072 |
| H | over £320,000 | £4,887 |
These are Forest of Dean's charges for 2026-27, the authority GL15 falls in, not an estimate for any individual home. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency and we never guess it; look up a band on GOV.UK and read your row. Bands reflect what a home was worth on 1 April 1991, not today.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · 8 of 8 bands published for Forest of Dean · data to 2026-27 financial year
Schools
Schools near GL15
8
open schools within 3 km, nearest Lydney Church of England Community School.
All schools
Lydney Church of England Community School
Primary · Academies · GL15 5JH
1.3 km
Good · 2013
Primrose Hill Church of England Primary Academy
Primary · Academies · GL15 5TA
1.6 km
Good · 2022
The Dean Academy
Middle deemed secondary · Academies · GL15 5DZ
1.9 km
Good · 2021
Pillowell Community Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · GL15 4QT
2.1 km
Requires improvement · 2023
Bream Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academies · GL15 6JW
2.3 km
Good · 2023
Aylburton Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academies · GL15 6DB
2.4 km
Good · 2013
Severnbanks Primary School
Primary · Academies · GL15 5AU
2.5 km
Good · 2021
Yorkley Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · GL15 4RR
2.9 km
Good · 2022
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 GL15 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 8 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near GL15
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 GL15
We hold no cached planning record for GL15: either nothing was found near the district centre when it was last checked, or this district has not been checked yet. Either way we do not fetch on this page, so you can run a live planning search for GL15.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for GL15
Decile 5 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 GL15 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 3 to decile 8, with a median of decile 5 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
GL15 4RX, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 5 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 GL15 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in GL15: 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
Cost to run
Two sources, one table
What it costs to run a home in GL15, band by band
Forest of Dean's council tax for 2026-27 set against the GL15 median sold price of £260,000 across 250 recorded sales: the annual running cost beside the purchase price, which neither source shows on its own.
| Band | 1991 valueVOA basis | A yearForest of Dean | A month÷ 12 | Of the median÷ £260,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,629 | £136 | 0.63% |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £1,900 | £158 | 0.73% |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,172 | £181 | 0.84% |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,443 | £204 | 0.94% |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £2,986 | £249 | 1.15% |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,529 | £294 | 1.36% |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,072 | £339 | 1.57% |
| H | over £320,000 | £4,887 | £407 | 1.88% |
The last column is the band's annual charge divided by the GL15 median sold price. A comparison of two published figures, not a rate anyone charges. It is not a mapping from price to band: a band records what a home was worth on 1 April 1991 and is set by the Valuation Office Agency, so it cannot be worked out from a 2020s sale price. Look up a specific band on GOV.UK. Instalment counts vary by authority, so the monthly column is simply the year over twelve.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Median across 250 recorded sales. · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Forest of Dean, 2026-27.
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in GL15 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 248 distinct addresses in the records we hold for GL15. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
BARLEY CROFT, LYDNEY
GL15 4RX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£515,000
2026-08-19
35, IRONSTONE CLOSE, LYDNEY
GL15 6HF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£255,000
2026-08-14
57, WOODLAND RISE, LYDNEY
GL15 5LN · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£185,000
2026-08-14
29, RUSHY LEAZE, LYDNEY
GL15 5QW · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£207,000
2026-08-10
13, WOODLAND ROAD, LYDNEY
GL15 4JU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£260,000
2026-08-10
23, LYCH GATE MEWS, LYDNEY
GL15 5TJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£190,000
2026-08-07
THE BROOKLET, THE COMMON, LYDNEY
GL15 6NU · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£1,040,000
2026-08-06
1, SLADE ROAD, LYDNEY
GL15 4SG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£240,000
2026-07-31
32, OAK MEADOW, LYDNEY
GL15 5SD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£200,000
2026-07-31
10, KIMBERLEY CLOSE, LYDNEY
GL15 5AE · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£305,000
2026-07-31
AMBERLEY, SUN GREEN ROAD, LYDNEY
GL15 6HX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£360,000
2026-07-31
41, HIGHFIELD ROAD, LYDNEY
GL15 5ND · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£186,000
2026-07-31
10, PAR FOUR LANE, LYDNEY
GL15 5GD · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£240,000
2026-07-31
9, SOUTH ROAD, LYDNEY
GL15 5LG · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£260,000
2026-07-30
53, LYCH GATE MEWS, LYDNEY
GL15 5TJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£200,000
2026-07-30
6, SWAINS FIELD, LYDNEY
GL15 6SU · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£112,000
2026-07-23
30, KIMBERLEY DRIVE, LYDNEY
GL15 5AF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£275,000
2026-07-20
16, AUGUSTUS WAY, LYDNEY
GL15 5NJ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£263,000
2026-07-17
44, BEAUCHAMP MEADOW, LYDNEY
GL15 5NS · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£350,000
2026-07-16
1, THE HAWTHORNS, LYDNEY
GL15 5BX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£270,000
2026-07-16
14, BROOKFIELDS, LYDNEY
GL15 4BX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£335,000
2026-07-15
24A, LAKESIDE AVENUE, LYDNEY
GL15 5PY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£330,000
2026-07-10
18, KINGFISHER DRIVE, LYDNEY
GL15 5FX · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£242,500
2026-07-09
5, HOPES CLOSE, LYDNEY
GL15 5EP · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£160,000
2026-06-30
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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Data sources
Every GL15 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.