About £350,000, and the shape underneath that number is stranger than the number itself. Terraces sell for roughly what detached houses sell for. Flats are the only genuinely cheap thing here, and hardly any of them change hands. The whole village turns over about forty-five sales a year. One price, several disguises.
The Land Registry recorded 45 sales in the year to May 2026, with a typical sale price of £350,000. Split by property type, the usual ranking goes sideways. Detached houses came in at £375,000 across ten sales. Terraced houses came in at £372,500 across nineteen, the largest single group and within touching distance of the detached figure. Semi-detached sold at £350,500 across twelve. Flats sold at £262,500, on four sales, a sample small enough that one unusual conversion shifts it.
The published house price index put values up about 2% over the twelve months to May 2026, which is movement rather than an event. Flats went the other way over the same period, down about 2%. Two small numbers walking in opposite directions, and neither of them a forecast.
Council tax sits at band D for the largest share of homes, with a band D bill of about £2,570 a year. Around 16% of dwellings fall into bands A or B, so the cheap end exists, but it is not where the stock lives.
Renting is measured across the whole Wiltshire area rather than the village itself, and the figure is a mean from the Office for National Statistics index rather than a median of what is advertised. On that basis, typical private rent runs at about £1,060 a month as of April 2026, up about 7% over the year. By size, the same series puts a one-bedroom at about £730, a two-bedroom at about £950, a three-bedroom at about £1,190, and four or more bedrooms at about £1,710. None of those are Downton's own numbers, which is worth remembering before quoting one at a landlord.
Household income here was modelled at about £70,500 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, so it describes that year rather than this one. Set against a typical sale of £350,000, that is a stretch rather than a wall. Comfortable for a household that already owns something and is selling it. Considerably less comfortable for a first purchase on one salary.
Of the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 73% of them, the median price per square metre is about £3,900, against a typical measured floor area of 81 square metres. That is the figure to take into a viewing, because square metres are the one thing staging cannot do anything about.
The 2021 census counted 1,472 households by bedroom, and the split is lopsided. About 44% have three bedrooms, 26% have two, 24% have four or more, and 6% have one. Three bedrooms is the default and everything else is a special case, which is why a one-bedroom search here comes back nearly empty and why downsizing locally means leaving.
Priced for what it is, Downton comes out middling. The money buys the village rather than the house, and the flats are the only point where those two prices come apart.