About £450,000, if one comes up. Fewer than twenty sell in a year. Detached houses go for three-quarters of a million. Terraces and semis sit nearer a third of a million. The headline price is a truce between two markets that rarely meet at the same viewing.
The Land Registry recorded 17 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £450,000. Split by type, the seven detached houses sold at a median of £750,000, the five terraces at about £345,000 and the four semis at about £330,000. With numbers this small, one farmhouse with a paddock can drag the median further than a whole row of cottages, so treat the headline as a rough guide to the parish, never as a price for the house on your shortlist.
The wider market is flat. The house price index for the surrounding area moved up 0.4% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £344,000, which is a rounding error dressed as a trend. Flats in the same index fell 2.4% over the year, to about £186,000. Over five years the index is up 15%. Anyone telling a seller that prices here are racing ahead is quoting a different decade.
Council tax leans upward with the housing. Band C is the most common, and bands A and B together cover only about 5% of homes, so there is almost no cheap end to the list. A band D bill runs to about £2,700 a year, which is the number to hold against whatever you pay now.
Renting is priced for the whole district. The typical private rent across the Rother area was about £1,160 a month in April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index rather than a Ticehurst figure. By size, that runs from about £800 a month for one bedroom to about £1,030 for two, £1,290 for three and £1,910 for four or more. Village houses to let are thin on the ground, so the district figure is a starting point for a search, not a promise of what turns up.
On income, the area's gross household income, before tax, averaged about £62,000 in the financial year to March 2023, on the Office for National Statistics' modelled estimate. After tax that comes to roughly £46,000. Against a £450,000 median, a single household income here buys a mortgage conversation, not a house, and the detached end is the preserve of people who arrived with the equity already in hand.
Price per square metre gives a fairer read than the median. Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, eight of the 17 or about 47%, the median was about £4,700 a square metre, on a typical floor area of about 76 square metres. That is a modest amount of house for the money, and the cottages with low ceilings and narrow stairs are part of the reason.
The stock tilts towards family sizes. At the 2021 Census about 35% of homes had three bedrooms, 31% two, 25% four or more and only 8% one. First-time buyers hunting a one-bed flat will spend more time scrolling than viewing.
Houses here cost a middling amount for a village this far from a station: not a bargain, not a scandal, and priced for the view more than the floor space. Buy for the Weald on your doorstep, because the numbers alone won't talk you into it.