Herefordshire, County of
LD8 house prices in Herefordshire, County of
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Herefordshire, County of, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£282,500
Range £164,600–£561,500 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
- 12-month change
- -1.8%
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 5 Oct 2022 and 24 Jul 2026.
Summary
House prices in LD8: the typical (median) sold price is £282,500, close to the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). Over the last twelve months the local median is down 1.8%, comparing 41 sales with 73, so a handful of homes can swing it. LD8 is a quiet market, with about 5 recorded sales a month. By property type, 54% were detached homes (typically £335,000) and 27% were semi-detached homes (typically £243,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Across the 1 most recently sold LD8 postcode we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 5 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 LD8: few sales, so go in with your eyes open
LD8 has seen just 250 sales since October 2022, at a lower median than a year ago, so the pressure is on sellers and buyers can take their time.
For sellers, detached homes typically sold for £335,000 against £180,000 for terraced homes, which explains a spread of £164,600 to £561,500, so the closest sold homes of your type say much more than the middle; with so few sales, allow extra time and a local agent’s view; cash buyers typically offer around 70–85% of market value (a rough guide, not a quote), which only makes sense if certainty is worth that much to you.
Sell houseWhen buying here, LD8 sits close to the UK average for typical prices, and prices have eased, so you can reasonably ask for the evidence behind an asking price.
Before you offer in LD8, check flood risk over the long term, planning applications nearby and the EPC rating, and ask your conveyancer about the title.
The sold prices leave a lot open; the free LD8 OfferCheck closes some of the gap with flood, crime, planning and council tax.
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At a glance
LD8 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£282,500
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
5.5
Across 250 sales
12-month change
-1.8%
-1.8% from last year
Local median
Freehold sales
98%
Of recorded sales
The data, honestly
House prices in LD8
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in LD8 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £335,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £92,500.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 113 | £335,000 | £235,000–£575,000 |
| Semi-detached | 57 | £243,000 | £186,000–£361,000 |
| Terraced | 38 | £180,000 | £126,965–£306,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 1 | £92,500 | £92,500–£92,500 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 5 Oct 2022 and 24 Jul 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in LD8
The quarterly typical price fell 6.7%, from £262,500 in Q4 2024 (20 sales) to £245,000 in Q3 2026 (3 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | £262,500 | 20 |
| Q1 2025 | £335,000 | 13 |
| Q2 2025 | £280,000 | 15 |
| Q3 2025 | £365,000 | 21 |
| Q4 2025 | £220,000 | 9 |
| Q1 2026 | £275,000 | 5 |
| Q2 2026 | £270,000 | 7 |
| Q3 2026 | £245,000 | 3 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 5 Oct 2022 and 24 Jul 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of LD8 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most LD8 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £164,600 and £561,500, around a typical £282,500.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 5 Oct 2022 and 24 Jul 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in LD8
Detached homes were 54% of recorded sales (113 of 209). 98% of sales were freehold and 2% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached54%
- Semi-detached27%
- Terraced18%
- Flat / maisonette0%
Tenure
- Freehold98%
- Leasehold2%
See the figures
246 freehold (98%) and 4 leasehold (2%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in LD8. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 5 Oct 2022 and 24 Jul 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.
13, THE PADDOCKS, PRESTEIGNE
£340,000 (2024)£387,000 (2026)+13.8% over 1.9 yrs (+7%/yr)
TY RHOSYN, 36, TOWNEND, PRESTEIGNE
£135,000 (2024)£142,500 (2026)+5.6% over 1.9 yrs (+2.9%/yr)
LITTLE HOUSE, WATER STREET, PRESTEIGNE
£270,000 (2024)£280,000 (2025)+3.7% over 1.5 yrs (+2.4%/yr)
21, KINGS COURT, PRESTEIGNE
£325,000 (2023)£338,000 (2025)+4% over 1.5 yrs (+2.6%/yr)
36, WARDEN CLOSE, PRESTEIGNE
£277,750 (2023)£250,000 (2024)-10% over 1.7 yrs (-5.9%/yr)
HARP INN, PRESTEIGNE
£390,000 (2023)£390,000 (2024)0% over 1.6 yrs (0%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where LD8 sits in Herefordshire, County of
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in LD8
1, CASTLE ROAD, PRESTEIGNE
Semi-detached · Freehold · 24 Jul 2026
£245,000
13, THE PADDOCKS, PRESTEIGNE
Detached · Freehold · 14 Jul 2026
£387,000
TY RHOSYN, 36, TOWNEND, PRESTEIGNE
Terraced · Freehold · 1 Jul 2026
£142,500
25, CAENBROOK MEADOW, PRESTEIGNE
Detached · Freehold · 26 Jun 2026
£285,000
48, CAENBROOK MEADOW, PRESTEIGNE
Semi-detached · Freehold · 26 Jun 2026
£242,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). LD8 includes the Arrow ward.
In plain English
What the Herefordshire, County of (LD8) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £335,000 against £180,000 for terraced homes: about 1.9 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £164,600 and £561,500, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (98%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
Only 250 sales sit behind these figures, so they are a rough guide rather than a firm reading.
- This is a quiet district: only about 5 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 5 October 2022 and 24 July 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 LD8
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 LD8
We don't hold published band charges for Herefordshire, County of 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 LD8
1
open school within 3 km, nearest Presteigne C.P. School.
All schools
Presteigne C.P. School
Welsh schools · LD8 2NH
1.8 km
Not graded
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 LD8 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 1 open school within 3 km, 0 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near LD8
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 LD8
4
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 18 October 2026.
Recent applications
Powys/25/0592/FULRejected
437 m
Construction of 3 raised glamping units, installation of sewage treatment plant, parking area, bike store and all associated works
Received 2025-04-17 · decided 2025-09-08
Powys/21/0236/HHPermitted
469 m
Erection of single detached garage
Received 2021-02-10 · decided 2021-04-23
Powys/RAD/2001/0372Permitted
493 m
Erection of 15m lattice tower with 3 antennae and cabin within 12m x 8m compound SO 26 SE
Received 2001-10-29 · decided 2001-12-10
Powys/RAD/2000/0010Permitted
483 m
Conversion of redundant barn to dwelling including single storey extension. SO 26 SE
Received 2000-01-14 · decided 2000-03-08
Applications are matched within 500 m of the LD8 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 4 of 4 held; run a live planning search for LD8 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 4 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 18 October 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for LD8
Decile 5 of 10
Median across 1 sampled postcode; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 1 sampled LD8 postcode, deprivation runs all in decile 5, with a median of decile 5 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
LD8 2LS, 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 LD8 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in LD8: 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. 1 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 · 1 postcode sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in LD8 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 238 distinct addresses in the records we hold for LD8. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
1, CASTLE ROAD, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£245,000
2026-07-24
13, THE PADDOCKS, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NJ · Detached · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£387,000
2026-07-14
TY RHOSYN, 36, TOWNEND, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DW · Terraced · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£142,500
2026-07-01
25, CAENBROOK MEADOW, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NE · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£285,000
2026-06-26
48, CAENBROOK MEADOW, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NE · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£242,000
2026-06-26
13, CASTLE ROAD, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£226,000
2026-06-09
KITES DRIFT, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NW · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£420,000
2026-05-22
STAPLETON CASTLE, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2LS · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£925,000
2026-05-01
22, WARDEN CLOSE, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DH · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£270,000
2026-04-17
27, HEREFORD STREET, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2AT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£265,000
2026-04-10
HAFOD, BROAD STREET, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2AD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£400,000
2026-03-27
1, CHURCH CLOSE, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2AQ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£275,000
2026-03-12
23, WARDEN CLOSE, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DH · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£215,000
2026-02-20
4, OFFAS GREEN, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£435,000
2026-02-20
28, WARDEN CLOSE, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DH · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£240,000
2026-01-09
MANSION HOUSE, HIGH STREET, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2BE · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£71,666
2025-12-19
12, CASTLE ROAD, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2EB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£220,000
2025-12-11
MELAN BUNGALOW, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2TN · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£170,000
2025-12-09
WELSH GATE, WARDEN ROAD, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NL · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£575,000
2025-11-20
19, CAENBROOK MEADOW, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NE · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£235,000
2025-11-20
7, ORCHARD VIEW, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2SB · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£275,000
2025-10-24
14, LUGG VIEW, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2DG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£173,000
2025-10-24
11, OFFAS GREEN, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2NX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£425,000
2025-10-22
LONDON HOUSE, HIGH STREET, PRESTEIGNE
LD8 2BE · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£180,000
2025-10-13
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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Postcode districts near LD8
The closest districts to LD8 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in HR5 (Kington) 4.7 miles
- House prices in LD7 (Knighton) 6.3 miles
- House prices in HR6 (Leominster) 12 miles
- House prices in HR3 (Hereford) 12 miles
- House prices in SY7 (Craven Arms) 13 miles
- House prices in LD1 (Llandrindod Wells) 14 miles
- House prices in SY9 (Bishops Castle) 16 miles
- House prices in SY8 (Ludlow) 16 miles
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Data sources
Every LD8 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.