About £285,000 for a typical house, which in this part of Somerset buys something with a garden and a spare room. A terrace runs closer to £235,000. A detached house nearly doubles that. Flats barely exist and cost about what a London deposit does. The gap between the cheapest and the dearest house here is wider than the price of the average one.
The Land Registry recorded 108 sales in the year to mid-May 2026, with a median of £285,000. Split by type, the picture is honest about what the money buys: 37 terraced sales at a median of £235,000, 31 semi-detached at £280,000, 35 detached at £450,000, and 5 flats at £119,000. That flat figure is drawn from a handful of transactions, so treat it as the shape of a very small market rather than a going rate. The detached number is the one that does the real work, because detached is the dominant housing type here and £450,000 is where the local ceiling sits for a normal family house.
The published index for the area put the average price at about £280,800 as of May 2026, up around 3% over the twelve months and about 15% across five years. Flats went the other way over the year, down by under 1%, which on that volume of sales is closer to noise than a trend. Nothing here is moving fast in either direction.
Council tax lands mostly in the middle. Band C is the most common, and about 27% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D property in this area carries an annual bill of roughly £2,560, which is the figure worth holding against whatever the reader currently pays.
Renting is the part where the numbers stop being local. Typical private rent across the Somerset area runs at about £990 a month, and that is a mean from the national price index rather than a median of what is currently advertised. By size, the same source puts one-bedroom homes at around £670, two-bedroom at £890, three-bedroom at £1,100, and four or more at about £1,580. Those are county-wide figures. A three-bedroom house in a village with almost no rental stock will not necessarily obey them.
On affordability, modelled gross household income for this area in the financial year to March 2023 came to about £53,500 before tax. Set the £285,000 median against that and the arithmetic is workable for a two-income household with a deposit, and hard for anyone doing it alone. The detached market at £450,000 is a different conversation entirely, and it is the conversation most people arriving here end up having.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 65% of them, the median price per square metre came to roughly £3,140, against a typical floor area of 78 square metres. That is a useful sanity check on any listing that claims to be generously proportioned.
Bedroom counts explain the rest. Around 45% of households have three bedrooms and about 28% have four or more, against 22% with two and just 5% with one. A one-bedroom search here returns almost nothing, which is why downsizers tend to buy a bungalow rather than a flat and simply not use the second room.
For what it costs, this is one of the area's genuine strengths: a proper house, with proper space, at a price that would buy a small flat in most places people move here from. The premium sits in the detached market, and it is the only place it sits.