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Lesnewth market report PL35, Boscastle
The PL35 (Lesnewth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 799 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL35 (Boscastle) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 10 registered 2026 sales put the PL35 (Boscastle) median at £266,500, down 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £284,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,260 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 799 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PL35 is a postcode district covering Boscastle, Lesnewth, Trevalga in Boscastle. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PL35 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in PL35
10 sales were registered in PL35 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £266,500. The mean works out at £284,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in PL35
By floor space, homes in PL35 have sold for about £4,260 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PL35 sits 6% below the national market.
A typical PL35 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £266,500 | £266,500 | 10 |
| 2025 | £282,500 | £289,255 | 18 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 21 |
| 2023 | £470,000 | £516,415 | 8 |
| 2022 | £348,500 | £408,656 | 26 |
| 2021 | £329,400 | £417,063 | 39 |
| 2020 | £286,000 | £371,091 | 21 |
| 2019 | £261,000 | £342,109 | 27 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 23 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 27 |
| 2016 | £235,500 | £329,467 | 26 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 29 |
| 2014 | £210,800 | £299,057 | 24 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 15 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 17 |
| 2011 | £179,000 | £270,221 | 14 |
| 2010 | £213,800 | £335,293 | 22 |
| 2009 | £222,500 | £357,671 | 17 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 10 |
| 2007 | £242,000 | £410,499 | 33 |
| 2006 | £239,000 | £414,873 | 26 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 15 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 25 |
| 2003 | £184,000 | £338,973 | 38 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 33 |
| 2001 | £107,500 | £206,663 | 34 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 39 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 29 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 37 |
| 1997 | £64,800 | £132,892 | 46 |
| 1996 | £52,500 | £110,720 | 32 |
| 1995 | £45,800 | £99,562 | 18 |
In cash terms the typical PL35 home went from £45,800 in 1995 to £266,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 168%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 48% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PL35 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2001 (+47.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−26.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.1% | −8.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −1.2% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.5% | −2.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total.
Median by property type, PL35
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £387,500 (2025) | – | 320 |
| Semi-detached | £330,000 (2021) | – | 143 |
| Terraced | £252,500 (2025) | – | 252 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 15 sales completed in PL35. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 30 sales a year before the financial crisis and 17 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of PL35
PL35 falls under Cornwall, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £691 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,510, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cornwall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £266,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,003 a month (£12,036 a year) works out at a 4.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the PL35 market
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PL35 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: PL35 (Lesnewth)
Is PL35 (Lesnewth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL35 (Lesnewth)?
Are property prices falling in PL35 (Lesnewth)?
Where do PL35 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
Moving up a bedroom in PL: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PL area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £262,625 | £300,000 (+14%) | £347,000 (+16%) | £435,000 (+25%) | £584,500 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £220,000 (+22%) | £242,000 (+10%) | £280,000 (+16%) | £332,500 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £162,500 | £190,000 (+17%) | £210,000 (+11%) | £260,000 (+24%) | £283,000 (+9%) |
| Flat | £112,750 | £137,500 (+22%) | £165,000 (+20%) | £249,000 (+51%) | £317,500 (+28%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PL35 ranks 34 of 35 in the PL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, PL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside PL35, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL35 0 | £266,500 | 10 |
How PL35 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PL28 | £525,000 | +9% |
| PL23 | £470,000 | +21% |
| PL8 | £422,500 | -9% |
| PL34 | £350,000 | +21% |
| PL29 | £340,000 | -39% |
| PL30 | £330,000 | -10% |
| PL27 | £320,200 | +0% |
| PL21 | £310,500 | +9% |
| PL16 | £310,000 | -7% |
| PL20 | £305,000 | -1% |
| PL9 | £300,000 | +11% |
| PL22 | £300,000 | +0% |
| PL10 | £298,500 | +13% |
| PL13 | £295,000 | +2% |
| PL12 | £277,000 | +13% |
| PL3 | £270,000 | +23% |
| PL17 | £270,000 | +4% |
| PL35 (this report) | £266,500 | -19% |
| PL7 | £266,000 | +16% |
| PL26 | £265,000 | +10% |
| PL19 | £263,800 | -14% |
| PL25 | £258,200 | +5% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL14 | £250,000 | +8% |
Selling in PL35? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL35, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL35 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL35 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL35 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PL35 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.