Most Expensive Streets in Northampton: New Top 10

Golf Lane in Church Brampton is the most expensive street in Northampton, measured by average sold price. Ten standard residential sales there average £1,690,650 on the latest Land Registry price paid data, and two of them reached £3 million or more. The record for a single sale belongs to another village entirely, where a detached house on Hemploe Road in Welford went for £4 million.

The bigger story is where these streets are. Every one of the top five sits in a village outside Northampton's built-up area: Golf Lane, Stable Lane and Sandy Lane in Church Brampton, Church Road in Spratton and Foxhill Road in West Haddon, all in the rural NN6 postcode district. NN6 takes six of the ten places overall, and the remaining four are split between villages in NN7 and two streets in NN4 on the town's edge. Not one street in the top ten is in the town centre.

Article published: August 2026.

We analysed 29,526 standard residential sales recorded in the latest HM Land Registry price paid data for the Northampton postal town, covering January 2020 to June 2026. Streets are ranked by average sold price and need at least two qualifying sales to make the table. If rents and yields matter more to you than trophy sold prices, our Northampton buy-to-let guide does that job, working through the town's postcodes one by one. The full top ten follows, with each street's biggest sale, the totals transacted street by street, and a closer look at the villages doing the heavy lifting.

Top 10 Most Expensive Streets in Northampton

Date range: 1st January 2020 to 26th June 2026. Based on the latest Land Registry price paid data at the time of research. Standard residential sales only (Category A): detached, semi-detached and terraced houses plus flats and maisonettes.

Note: Only streets with two or more standard residential sales in this period are included in this table.

Church Brampton alone supplies three of the top four. Add Spratton, West Haddon and Guilsborough and the rural NN6 district holds six of the ten places. The rest of the list splits between two NN7 villages, Ashton and Little Houghton, and the two NN4 entries, Belfry Lane in Collingtree and Medinah Close. The samples behind these averages vary a lot, from ten sales on Golf Lane down to two on half the list, so the profiles below use the underlying transactions to show which figures carry real weight.

Golf Lane, Church Brampton

The lane takes its name from its best-known resident. Northamptonshire County Golf Club gives Golf Lane, Church Brampton as its address and dates its time in the village to 1909. The lane recorded ten qualifying sales in the window, more than any other street in the table, with prices running from £1 million up to £3.3 million in August 2025. Two of those ten landed at £3 million or above; the earlier of the pair, at £3 million exactly, completed in February 2024. That makes the £1,690,650 average the best-evidenced figure on this page: where half the table qualifies on two sales, Golf Lane's lead rests on ten. The most recent entry on the register here is £1,350,000, from September 2025.

Stable Lane and Sandy Lane, Church Brampton

Church Brampton's other two entries read differently. Stable Lane qualifies on exactly two sales, £1,188,000 in February 2021 and £1.6 million in November 2022, so its £1,394,000 average is a thin-sample figure with a £412,000 gap inside it. Sandy Lane has four sales to its name, from £865,000 in October 2024 up to £1.9 million in December 2025, the newest street record anywhere in this top ten. Four sales spread across a price range of just over £1 million still leave its £1,266,250 average as a waypoint, not a going rate.

Church Road, Foxhill Road and Teeton Road: the NN6 villages

Spratton's Church Road takes third place on two sales more than four years apart: £970,000 in December 2020, then £1,680,000 in March 2025. Foxhill Road in West Haddon is the same low-then-high pair over a shorter run, £840,000 in February 2020 and £1,675,000 in January 2022. Teeton Road in Guilsborough completes the NN6 set, again on two sales: £885,000 in June 2021 and £1,490,000 in November 2023. All three averages rest on two transactions apiece, a record of what buyers have paid there rather than an established street price.

Medinah Close and Belfry Lane: the NN4 pair

The two NN4 entries share a theme as well as a district. The register places Belfry Lane in Collingtree, the village on the town's edge that is home to Collingtree Park Golf Club; Medinah Close sits nearby in NN4, its locality left blank in the register. Both carry the names of championship golf venues. Belfry Lane is the busier of the two, with seven sales running from £771,250 up to £1,875,000 in September 2023. Medinah Close qualifies on two, £1,325,000 in April 2023 and £1,150,000 in December 2024. That £175,000 gap is the tightest of any two-sale street in this table, which gives its average more meaning than the sample size suggests.

Old Farm Lane and Station Road: the NN7 pair

NN7 supplies Old Farm Lane in Ashton and Station Road in Little Houghton. Old Farm Lane's three sales span £828,000 in January 2022, £1,416,000 that June and £1.4 million in October 2023. The low sale is what holds the average to £1,214,667. Station Road carries six sales from £750,000 up to £1,450,000 in August 2025, and the register shows two of them completing on the same day in July 2025, at £1,050,000 and £1,360,000, recorded against different stretches of the street; both appear here exactly as the register lists them.

Northampton's Highest Individual Property Sales

Published August 2026

Date range: 1st January 2020 to 26th June 2026. Based on the latest Land Registry price paid data at the time of research.

No home in the Northampton postal town sold for more than £4 million in this period, and the sale that set that mark was a detached freehold house on Hemploe Road in Welford, completed in June 2025. Hemploe Road does not appear in the ranked table at all: it recorded only one qualifying sale in the window, and the ranking needs two, so the street holds the record while sitting outside the top ten. Among the ranked streets, the biggest single sale is Golf Lane's £3.3 million in August 2025, £700,000 short of the record. The table below sets out each ranked street's single biggest sale.

Note: This table shows the single highest standard residential (Category A) sale on each street in the top ten, ranked by price.

Four of the ten street records were set in 2025: Golf Lane in August, Church Road in March, Station Road in August and Sandy Lane in December. That is the new part of this top ten. The prices at the head of the table were set recently, and the newest record of all, on Sandy Lane, completed about six months before the data window closed. The oldest high here is Foxhill Road's £1,675,000, from January 2022. Golf Lane's £3.3 million stands £1.4 million clear of the next street record, Sandy Lane's £1.9 million, a bigger gap than separates Sandy Lane from tenth place.

Northampton's Record Streets: Total Value of Property Sales

Published August 2026

Date range: 1st January 2020 to 26th June 2026. Based on the latest Land Registry price paid data at the time of research.

The averages and the records tell you about top prices. Total money transacted tells you which of these streets actually trade. The table below sums every qualifying sale on the ten ranked streets.

Note: Totals are the sum of the qualifying standard residential (Category A) sales on each ranked street over the period.

Buyers paid £53,544,750 across 40 sales on these ten streets in six and a half years. Golf Lane tops this table as well as the averages, its ten sales adding up to £16.9 million, more than the bottom five streets combined. The five two-sale streets sit at the foot of the totals however high their averages, each finishing under £2.8 million.

Look past the ranked ten, though, and the biggest street total in the whole extract is Campus Drive in NN2: £49,694,981 across 158 sales, not far short of the ten most expensive streets put together. Campus Drive is a volume story rather than a trophy one; its sales average around £314,500, which is why a street responsible for nearly £50 million of transactions appears nowhere in the averages table. The biggest single sales are in the villages; the biggest street total is in NN2.

Where Do Northampton's Wealthy Actually Live?

Northampton's millionaires' row, if the sold-price record gets to name one, is in Church Brampton. The village in the countryside outside the town holds three of the four most expensive streets, and the other NN6 villages in the list, Spratton, Guilsborough and West Haddon, are the same kind of place: small settlements where large homes change hands a few times a decade. That scarcity is why every average on this page carries its sale count.

So when people search for the most expensive area to live in Northampton, the sold-price answer is specific: the villages. On this measure the richest part of the Northampton market is rural NN6. The posh areas of Northampton, going by what buyers have paid, include Church Brampton and Spratton among the villages, Collingtree on the town's edge, and Little Houghton out in NN7. Whether Northampton itself is expensive to live in depends on which Northampton you mean: a single street in NN2, Campus Drive, changed hands more times than the whole top ten put together, while the village lanes hold the seven-figure averages.

Sold prices show where buyers paid the most; they say nothing about who lives on a street or what anyone there is worth. A sale count is not a house count either, only the number that changed hands, which is how a lane of substantial homes can sit on two recorded transactions in six and a half years.

This page measures one thing, sold prices. Rents, yields and workable entry prices are a different exercise, and our Northampton buy-to-let guide handles them district by district. Hardly anyone shops at this end of the market in any case: a typical investment property costs a fraction of these village averages, and the main use of a ceiling figure is judging everything that sits under it.

How to Find the Most Expensive Streets in Northampton

You can rebuild this table yourself with nothing more than a spreadsheet. Here is how to reproduce it:

1. Open the HM Land Registry price paid data search.
2. Search by town or city and enter Northampton. HM Land Registry's town field is the postal town, which covers the NN1 to NN7 postcode districts including the surrounding villages.
3. Tick the four residential property types: detached, semi-detached, terraced and flat/maisonette. Leave out "other", which can include commercial premises.
4. Set the date range. We ran 1st January 2020 to the latest date available.
5. Download the results, group them by street, and rank on average sold price with a minimum of two sales per street, so a single transaction cannot top the table on its own.

Note: Check the download for duplicate rows before averaging anything. The register can occasionally repeat a transaction, and on a two-sale street one duplicate wrecks the average. This Northampton extract contained none, but the check takes a couple of minutes.

Sold-price data has a second job beyond rankings: it is what a claimed discount gets checked against, and that comparison with completed sales is how below market value properties earn the label in the first place. For the working end of the market rather than the record end, our buy to let property for sale page carries current deals from across the UK.

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