A typical house in Stonehouse costs about £310,000, and that buys you a semi with a garden. Detached homes go for about £425,000. Terraces come in at about a quarter of a million. Flats hardly ever change hands. At this end of the valley a sensible household can still make the numbers work.
The Land Registry counted 112 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of £310,000. Semis were the busiest part of the market, with 42 sales at a median of about £310,000, so the town's middle price and its middle house are the same thing. Detached houses changed hands 35 times at about £425,000, and terraces 26 times at about £250,000. Only nine flats sold, at a median of about £156,000. The town has eight pubs, so a flat here turns up for sale about as often as a new pub opens.
The house-price index for the area was up 3.9% in the twelve months to May 2026, a steady rise. Flats moved by 0.1% over the same period, downwards, which in property terms means they stood still. If the flat in question is a buy-to-let, its price is going nowhere, so the case for it rests on the rent.
Band B is the most common council-tax band here, and 44% of homes sit in Bands A or B. A Band D home pays about £2,490 a year, the figure most people can hold up against their current bill. For a town where most homes are family-sized houses, the council-tax banding comes out cheaper than you might expect.
Renting costs about £1,040 a month across the Stroud district as of April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics price index, and that figure was up about 7% on the year before. By size, the district averages about £740 for one bedroom, £960 for two, £1,170 for three and £1,660 for four or more. Those numbers cover Stroud itself and the villages up the valleys as well as Stonehouse, and the index gives no figures for studios or rooms. Rents rose by nearly twice the rate that house prices did, and the people who notice that first are the ones paying them.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income here at about £54,000 a year, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is now a few years old, and gross is the version nobody gets to spend. Even so, a household earning that and buying a semi at the town's median is borrowing a believable sum. Stonehouse is still somewhere a couple can buy a whole house before their children start school.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, 88% of the total, the median price was about £3,400 per square metre, for a typical floor area of 88 square metres. That is family-house space at a family-house price. Nearly a third of postcodes flag a high flood risk on at least one measure, so get a buildings insurance quote on the exact postcode early, while the asking price is still up for discussion. In this town the premium can quietly decide which of two similar semis is really the cheaper one.
At the 2021 census, three bedrooms was the most common size at 38% of homes, followed by two bedrooms at 30% and four or more at 24%. Only 8% had one bedroom. Stonehouse was built for people who planned to have children, and its housing stock has held to that plan ever since.
Prices are one of the things Stonehouse does well: a proper family house at a price an ordinary pair of salaries can carry, with no premium attached for a famous name.