A STREET in Pendle has been named the cheapest in England with an average house price of just under £33,000.

Several streets in Brierfield and Burnley have sidestepped the property boom to be named in the top 20 most affordable locations in England and Wales, according to housing website Mouseprice.

But with terraces going for an average of £32,800, Oxford Street, in central Brierfield, is the cheapest nationally.

Nearby Craven Street also has homes worth around £36,700.

Mother-of-two Sam Shackleton, 23, who lives halfway down Oxford Street, was not surprised at the findings.

She said: “The houses look all right from the outside but inside they are falling apart. There is damp everywhere.

If the homes were that good, then I wouldn’t be moving out.”

Another neighbour, who asked not to be named, said the cheap prices were surprising, “especially as we’ve got an extension and three bedrooms”.

Nearly half of the homes, which are overshadowed by the Powerhouse Gym and a new mosque under construction, are set to be demolished.

Under Regenerate, formerly the Elevate, programme the lower block will be demolished as part of anticipated improvement works for the Railway Street area.

In the last 12 months, the house price average has actually improved in Oxford Street, which featured in a 2009 version of the same survey, with a ranking of £30,600.

Down the road in Burnley, Wood Street and Altham Street in Daneshouse and Elmwood Street, off Accrington Road, all have homes worth under £36,000.

Three remaining Burnley roads, Spencer Street, Hurtley Street and Colville Street, also figure in the league table.

The cheapest street in England and Wales is Fernhill, in the mid-Glamorgan village of Mountain Ash, where the average house price is £28,600.

The same researchers have found there is still a north-south divide, with the cheapest average house price, by road, in London coming in at £101,000.