490 Manchester Road, Accrington BB5 2QL

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 62 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £13,950 · £6,975 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Party wall insulation£300 – £600£489.4 yrs+2.8 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£8811.4 yrs+5.1 pts · reaches C
Heating controls£350 – £450£3212.5 yrs+1.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£5448.1 yrs+3.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8150+ yrs+4.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6850+ yrs+3.9 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £14,000£9550+ yrs+5.5 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

£1,243
per year at grade D
£776
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £372 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £13,950.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £732 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 April 2025£105,000
28 May 2004£55,000
12 April 1996£36,000
8 March 1995£36,950

Estimated today: £114,232 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Manchester Road: 545 sales since 1995 · £143,904 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Baxenden St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Green Haworth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Accrington Woodnook Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
The HollinsSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.16 · average (2023/24)
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
RhyddingsSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -0.87 · well below 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.

7.3
crimes a month
66
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025040, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Manchester Road

How this home sits against its street.

225
graded homes
59.2
average score
D
most common grade
+2.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.