16a Pleckgate Fold, Blackburn BB1 8QB

End-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 96 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £27,373 · £9,124 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £400£1551.3 yrs+4.5 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£872.6 yrs+2.5 pts
Low energy lighting£40£85.0 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£666.0 yrs+1.9 pts
High-performance doors£2,000 – £0£1456.9 yrs+4.2 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1367.4 yrs+3.9 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£18218.7 yrs+5.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£11223.3 yrs+3.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£16826.7 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£14135.4 yrs+4.0 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£19745.8 yrs+5.6 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

£2,580
per year at grade E
£1,183
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,397 a year — a 5.1% annual return on £27,373.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,564 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 March 2025£293,000
11 February 2022£222,500

Estimated today: £308,824 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Pleckgate Fold: 7 sales since 1995 · £204,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Gabriel's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Holy Souls Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary0.2 mi
Lammack Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Pleckgate High SchoolSecondaryunder 0.1 miProgress 8 -0.01 · average (2023/24)
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.22 · below average (2023/24)
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +2.05 · well above 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.

14.5
crimes a month
160
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012633, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Pleckgate Fold

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
54.7
average score
D
most common grade
-11.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.