If someone tried to charge you £120 for a humble little house brick, you wouldn’t pay it would you?

But that colossal amount is how much each brick that makes up a typical London property is said to be worth.

The average brick of a home in the capital has a value of £121.08, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has calculated.

The figure, based on looking at the price and size of an average home, is unsurprisingly higher in London than anywhere else in the country.

Closest to London’s amount is Oxford where the average brick is worth £95.50. Cheapest is Belfast at £22.09.

The average brick in a UK house is worth £47, more than 50 times the cost of one sitting in a DIY shop, according to the research carried out for Barclays Mortgages.

The cost of a brick has increased by a third over the past 10 years, with the Cebr predicting a brick in an average UK home will be worth £58.69 by 2020 and nearly £150 in London.

Here are the five UK cities with the most valuable bricks:

  1. 1. London, £121.08
  2. 2. Oxford, £95.50
  3. 3. Cambridge, £91.61
  4. 4. Brighton and Hove, £71.53
  5. 5. Bristol, £47.24