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Dark Lane, B78

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£212,500
all recorded sales
Recorded sales
4
Distinct homes
2
Price range
£175,000£318,000
Sales recorded
2003 → 2007
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Dark Lane is a mix of detached houses and semi-detached houses, and every recorded sale is in one building, Lamphouse Cottages. Homes here typically change hands around £212,500 — roughly 13% below the B78 norm. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; B78 prices as a whole have held broadly level. The record shows 4 sales across 2 homes since 2003.

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Dark Lane prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 4 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianB78 district trend
£100k£150k£200k£250k£300k200520102015202020252003: £175,000 median · 2 sales2007: £284,000 median · 2 sales

Median sold price by year vs the B78 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Dark Lane compares

Dark Lane against the B78 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Austen Drive£302k · 178
Worthing Grove£295k · 65
Watling Street£245k · 49
Reindeer Road£237k · 45
Dark Lane£213k · 4*
Tamworth Road£212k · 53
New Street£167k · 51
Tolson Court£165k · 55
Long Street£165k · 55
The Laurels£157k · 50

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£212,500
median · all recorded sales
B78 district
£245,000
median · last 8 years · street -13%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Dark Lane's £212,500 median sits about 13% below B78's £245,000.

Street and B78 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Prices by property type

Median sold price by property type on Dark Lane.

Detached
£212,500
2 sales
Semi-detached
£246,500
2 sales

Every recorded sale on Dark Lane

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
10 Jul 20192, Lamphouse Cottages · B78 1AAnon-standardTerraced£420,000
30 Mar 20072, Lamphouse Cottages · B78 1AASemi-detached£318,000
23 Mar 20073, Lamphouse Cottages · B78 1AADetached£250,000
31 Jan 20032, Lamphouse Cottages · B78 1AASemi-detached£175,000
29 Jan 20033, Lamphouse Cottages · B78 1AADetached£175,000

Sales marked non-standardare Land Registry “additional price paid” entries — bulk purchases, repossessions, right-to-buy and similar transfers. They're listed for completeness but excluded from every median and comparison figure on this page.

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More streets in B78

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider B78 area guide.

Long StreetTamworth RoadAusten DriveNew StreetWatling StreetThe LaurelsSorrel DriveReindeer RoadSt Leonards ViewKiln WayFoxwood RoadDexter Way
B78 house prices & area guide →

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.