Britain’s ‘cheapest’ town with homes on sale for as little as £80k

Cumnock has been named Britain's cheapest municipality of 2024 by Zoopla (Image: Getty)

The tiny concern municipality of Cumnock has made headlines successful the past for its competitively priced housing market, and caller investigation from Zoopla has confirmed its presumption arsenic Britain’s astir affordable town.

Property prices successful the Victorian-looking hamlet, which really dates to the 19th century, averaged £80,300 successful the past 12 months, compared to an eye-watering £307,600 successful Britain arsenic a whole.

The mean merchantability terms successful Cumnock clocked successful astatine 1.1 times emblematic household net successful the area, portion the country-wide full was astir 3.8 times the mean income for a two-person home.

And determination indispensable beryllium thing successful the section h2o due to the fact that Ayrshire, connected the shores of the Firth of Clyde successful southwest Scotland, is besides location to 3 much of Britain’s cheapest towns for location buyers this twelvemonth - Girvan, Saltcoats and Ardrossan.

The municipality has a bid presumption (Image: Getty)

Cumnock is champion known arsenic a erstwhile ember mining municipality and for its links to Scottish Labour Party laminitis James Keir Hardie, who has a bust extracurricular the 19th period municipality hall, and the writer Robert Burns, who visited it respective times.

The concern clump of buildings dating from the 1800s is dispersed astir the honey-coloured Cumnock Old Church and 14th period Mercat Cross, erected nether King James IV alongside the close to clasp a marketplace successful the square.

And portion the mining manufacture began to nosedive successful the 1960s, remnants of the town’s once-defining commercialized stay successful the surviving Baroney A-Frame, present a memorial and picnic area.

Tourist attraction Dumfries House lies conscionable a fewer miles extracurricular Cumnock (Image: Getty)

The Baird Institute, a escaped depository successful cardinal Cumnock, besides offers penetration into its pottery trade, which took disconnected aft the find of a uncommon mineral graphite successful the pre-industrial years, and the instauration of intricate plane-tree snuff boxes that enactment it connected the representation successful the aboriginal 1800s.

If each that past and the cheapest location prices successful the state weren't capable to triumph you over, the Scottish municipality is besides little than six miles from stately homes Dumfries House, Glaisnock House and Auchinleck House.

It besides has casual entree to Glasgow, Ayr and Kilmarnock and is conscionable a 10 infinitesimal thrust from Ballochmyle Country Park - praised by visitors connected TripAdvisor for its “stunning and awesome landscapes” and routes winding astir an abandoned castle to the shores of Loch Lomond.