5 Lower Downside, Downside, Shepton Mallet BA4 4JX

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 66 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, dual fuel (mineral and wood)

Upgrade Plan

EC for £31,550 · £15,775 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£20 – £180£791.3 yrs+2.8 pts
Draughtproofing£150 – £250£782.6 yrs+2.8 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £7,000£7250+ yrs+2.5 pts
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£9350+ yrs+3.3 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£10050+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£8650+ yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C

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

£1,872
per year at grade E
£1,363
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £509 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £31,550.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

9 September 2022£192,000
6 July 2016£139,950
3 November 2014£124,000

Estimated today: £189,524 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

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 SchoolPrimary0.7 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.