138 Whalley Road, Accrington BB5 1BS

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 148 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £2,000 · £2,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1456.9 yrs+4.1 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1089.2 yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£3,500 – £5,500£13433.6 yrs+3.8 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£11244.5 yrs+3.1 pts

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

£2,467
per year at grade D
£1,968
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £253 a year — a 12.7% annual return on £2,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £2,564 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 January 2025£185,000
11 October 1999£53,100
20 May 1996£47,000

Estimated today: £200,491 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Whalley Road: 248 sales since 1995 · £117,120 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Accrington St Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Accrington St John with St Augustine Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Accrington Peel Park Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Accrington AcademySecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.62 · well below average (2023/24)
Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.26 · below average (2023/24)
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.38 · 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.

23.3
crimes a month
256
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025057, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Whalley Road

How this home sits against its street.

139
graded homes
56.3
average score
D
most common grade
+6.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.