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Old School Cottages, BL7

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

Median sold price
£300,000
all recorded sales
Recorded sales
5
Distinct homes
1
Price range
£147,500£400,000
Sales recorded
2000 → 2022
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Old School Cottages is almost entirely semi-detached houses. Homes here typically change hands around £300,000 — roughly 20% above the BL7 norm. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; BL7 prices as a whole have been easing. HM Land Registry records 5 sales across 1 home since 2000 — the street turns over frequently.

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Old School Cottages prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 5 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianBL7 district trend
£100k£200k£300k£400k£500k2000200520102015202020252000: £147,500 median · 1 sale2003: £230,000 median · 1 sale2008: £362,500 median · 1 sale2016: £300,000 median · 1 sale2022: £400,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the BL7 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Old School Cottages compares

Old School Cottages against the BL7 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Broadhead Road£375k · 54
Chapeltown Road£331k · 48
Old School Cottages£300k · 5*
Bolton Road£240k · 64
High Street£238k · 48
Blackburn Road£230k · 114
Threadfold Way£198k · 70
Deakins Mill Way£174k · 58
Darwen Road£172k · 121
Clarendon Gardens£130k · 46

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
£300,000
median · all recorded sales
BL7 district
£250,000
median · last 8 years · street +20%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Old School Cottages's £300,000 median sits about 20% above BL7's £250,000.

Street and BL7 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.

Every recorded sale on Old School Cottages

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

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
20 Dec 20221 · BL7 9RDSemi-detached£400,000
18 May 20161 · BL7 9RDSemi-detached£300,000
2 Oct 20081 · BL7 9RDSemi-detached£362,500
30 Sept 20031 · BL7 9RDSemi-detached£230,000
17 Nov 20001 · BL7 9RDSemi-detached£147,500
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More streets in BL7

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider BL7 area guide.

Darwen RoadBlackburn RoadThreadfold WayValley MillBolton RoadDeakins Mill WayHigh StreetChapeltown RoadClarendon GardensQueens AvenueLords Stile LaneCox Green Road
BL7 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.