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What do houses cost in Feock, Cornwall?

For anyone buying or renting in Feock, Cornwall.

Around £565,000, and that is the median rather than the showpiece. Detached is the default here, and detached is what sets the price. Half the homes have four bedrooms or more. A year's worth of buyers would fit comfortably around one dinner table. Feock is less a market than a waiting list.

The Land Registry logged six sales in the year to March 2026, at a median of £565,000. Three of those were detached, at a median of £600,000, which is the only property type with enough sales behind it to quote. Six transactions is not a market you can average with much confidence, and it is also the point: houses here change hands rarely, and when they do the seller is usually in no hurry.

The published house price index for the area was up 4% over the twelve months to May 2026, with the average price at about £279,720. Flats over the same period were essentially unchanged, down a fraction of a percent. That index average tells you something useful in itself, which is that it is measuring a great many places that are not Feock.

Council tax follows the housing stock upward. Band F is the most common band in the area, and only about 5% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. The band D annual bill comes to roughly £2,590, which is the figure most readers can hold against their own. Here it functions as the floor rather than the norm.

Renting is thin on the ground and priced at county level. The typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, which is a mean drawn from the national rent index rather than a median of what is currently advertised. By size across that same area, a one-bedroom runs to about £690 a month, a two-bedroom about £880, a three-bedroom about £1,080, and four bedrooms or more about £1,510. None of those are Feock's own numbers, and in a village where nearly nine in ten households own, they are closer to an indication than an offer.

On affordability, the gap is not subtle. Modelled gross household income for this area, before tax, was about £57,000 for the financial year to March 2023. Set that against a £565,000 median and the arithmetic of a normal mortgage stops working somewhere around the second viewing. Most people buying here are not borrowing their way in on a local salary. They are arriving with the proceeds of something they already sold.

Measured by floor area, the median works out at about £3,970 a square metre, on a typical 126 square metres. That covers the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is roughly 83% of them, so it is a good read rather than a complete one. What it buys is space in the plainest sense: a solid, detached, unremarkable amount of house for a number that would buy considerably more almost anywhere inland.

The bedroom mix from the 2021 census explains why the entry price stays high. About 50% of households have four bedrooms or more and 36% have three. Two-bedroom homes account for roughly 12%, and one-bedroom homes about 3%. There is no small end of this market to slip into, because it was never built.

Cost is where Feock comes off worst. The prices are high, the stock is large, the sales are few, and nothing about the local income picture suggests the place is priced for the people who live near it.

Sources: HM Land Registry · UK House Price Index · Valuation Office Agency · EPC register · ONS Census 2021 · Office for National Statistics

Data to March 2026 · Figures checked 19 September 2026 (what this means)