2-3, Lower Downside, Downside, Shepton Mallet BA4 4JP

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 143 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil, Boiler and radiators, coal

Upgrade Plan

GB for £53,450 · £10,690 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£1472.7 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches F
Low energy lighting£50£182.8 yrs+0.5 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£24810.5 yrs+7.2 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£40312.4 yrs+11.7 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£31316.0 yrs+9.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£37317.4 yrs+10.8 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£43620.6 yrs+12.6 pts · reaches C
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£14633.6 yrs+4.2 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£33450+ yrs+9.7 pts · reaches B

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£3,956
per year at grade G
£1,538
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,418 a year — a 4.5% annual return on £53,450.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £3,143 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 March 2018£315,000
15 July 2010£315,000

Estimated today: £401,206 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lower Downside: 2 sales since 1995 · £315,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Shepton Mallet Community Infants' School & NurseryPrimary0.5 mi
St Paul's Church of England VC Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Bowlish Infant SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
WhitstoneSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.06 · average (2023/24)
The Blue SchoolSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
Norton Hill AcademySecondary6.3 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

11.1
crimes a month
111
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029064, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.