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Museum Street, WC1A

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

Median sold price
£950,000
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£12,798
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
15
Distinct homes
13
Price range
£287,500 – £2,637,500
Sales recorded
2000 → 2023
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Sales on Museum Street are mostly flats. The median sale price is £950,000, about 25% below the typical WC1A sale. Per square metre of floor space it comes to about £12,798, below the district's £19,850. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; WC1A prices as a whole have been rising. With 15 sales across 13 homes since 2000, homes here come to market only rarely.

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Museum Street prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 15 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianWC1A district trend
£0£2M£4M£6M2000200520102015202020252000: £375,000 median · 1 sale2003: £287,500 median · 1 sale2004: £575,000 median · 1 sale2005: £765,000 median · 1 sale2011: £950,000 median · 1 sale2013: £1,765,000 median · 1 sale2014: £849,950 median · 1 sale2015: £1,312,500 median · 2 sales2016: £601,000 median · 1 sale2017: £2,292,750 median · 2 sales2018: £2,160,000 median · 1 sale2023: £1,437,475 median · 2 sales

Median sold price by year vs the WC1A district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Museum Street compares

Museum Street against the WC1A district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

New Oxford Street£5.63M · 27
Bloomsbury Square£1.17M · 8
Galen Place£1.06M · 6
Museum Street£950k · 15*
Barter Street£866k · 7
Bury Place£782k · 6
Coptic Street£550k · 7

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
£950,000
median · all recorded sales
WC1A district
£1,265,000
median · last 8 years · street -25%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Museum Street's £950,000 median sits about 25% below WC1A's £1,265,000; on floor space it runs £12,798/m² against the district's £19,850/m² (-36%).

Street and WC1A 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 Museum Street.

Flat
£1,075,000
13 sales
Terraced
£431,250
2 sales

Every recorded sale on Museum Street

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

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
9 Nov 2023Levels Three And Four, The Post Building · WC1A 1BAnon-standardOther—£4,280,944
17 Oct 2023Flat B, 22 · WC1A 1JNFlat—£1,075,000
29 Sept 2023Flat A, 22 · WC1A 1JNnon-standardFlat—£910,000
11 Aug 2023Flat 1, 34 · WC1A 1LHFlat—£1,799,950
28 Jul 2022Units 5, 6 & 7, The Post Building · WC1A 1BAnon-standardOther—£500,000
13 Mar 202021 · WC1A 1JNnon-standardOther—£45,000
28 Nov 2019Unit 5e, The Post Building · WC1A 1BAnon-standardOther—£57,903
25 Feb 201938a · WC1A 1LPnon-standardOther—£60,000
20 Feb 201842a · WC1A 1LTFlat—£2,160,000
8 Dec 201743a · WC1A 1LYFlat—£2,637,500
29 Sept 2017Basement And Ground Floor, 33 · WC1A 1LHnon-standardOther—£490,000
28 Jun 2017Flat 3, 34 · WC1A 1LHFlat—£1,948,000
31 Oct 201642 - 43 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardOther—£3,125,000
31 Oct 2016Upper Maisonette, 43 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardOther—£3,125,000
31 Oct 2016Ground Floor Flat And Basement, 43 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardFlat—£3,125,000
31 Oct 201643 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardOther—£3,125,000
28 Oct 2016Basement And Ground Floor Premises, 28 · WC1A 1LHnon-standardOther—£490,000
26 Sept 2016Flat 1, 45 · WC1A 1LYFlat—£601,000
5 Feb 2016Suites 7 And 8 Museum House, 25 · WC1A 1PLnon-standardOther—£14,636,000
2 Feb 2016Flat 3, 34 · WC1A 1LHnon-standardFlat—£1,625,000
11 Dec 2015Ground Floor And Basement Premises, 29 · WC1A 1LHnon-standardOther—£1,800,000
29 Oct 2015Flat 2, 34 · WC1A 1LHFlat—£1,675,000
27 Apr 2015Flat C, 22 · WC1A 1JNFlat—£950,000
1 Apr 2015First, Second And Third Floors, 44 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardFlat—£900,000
1 Apr 2015First, Second And Third Floors, 47 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardFlat—£1,240,000
1 Apr 2015First Floor Rear, 47 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardFlat—£640,000
1 Apr 2015Ground Floor Rear, 45 · WC1A 1LYnon-standardOther—£900,000
4 Feb 2014Flat 2, 45 · WC1A 1LYFlat—£849,950
31 Jan 2014Flat C, 22 · WC1A 1JNnon-standardOther—£975,000
9 Jul 2013Flat, 28 · WC1A 1LHFlat—£1,765,000
21 Jun 2011Flat 3, 45 · WC1A 1LYFlat—£950,000
19 Sept 2005Flat 3, 34 · WC1A 1LHFlat—£765,000
13 May 200429 · WC1A 1LHTerraced—£575,000
14 Mar 200342 - 43 · WC1A 1LYTerraced—£287,500
14 Aug 2000Flat 3, 45 · WC1A 1LYFlatYes£375,000

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 WC1A

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider WC1A area guide.

New Oxford StreetCoptic StreetBloomsbury SquareBury PlaceBarter StreetGalen PlaceBloomsbury WayLittle Russell StreetWest Central StreetStreatham StreetGilbert PlaceWilloughby Street
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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.