1 Ghyll Cottage, Buckden, Skipton BD23 5JA

End-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 102 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

GB for £19,970 · £3,994 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20£73.0 yrs+0.4 pts
Hot water cylinder insulation£400£1303.1 yrs+7.1 pts · reaches F
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£1224.1 yrs+6.7 pts
Loft insulation£350£734.8 yrs+4.0 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£2,700 – £700£2118.1 yrs+11.5 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£15319.7 yrs+8.3 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£11825.3 yrs+6.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£14128.3 yrs+7.7 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£16542.4 yrs+9.0 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine(optional, beyond B)£25,000 – £0£12650+ yrs+6.9 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

£2,389
per year at grade G
£1,143
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,120 a year — a 5.6% annual return on £19,970.

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

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Rowan Cottage: 5 sales since 1995 · £240,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Kettlewell Primary SchoolPrimary3.2 mi
Grassington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary9.1 mi
Threshfield Primary SchoolPrimary9.1 mi
Upper Wharfedale SchoolSecondary8.6 miProgress 8 +0.60 · 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.

5.1
crimes a month
36
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01027585, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rowan Cottage

How this home sits against its street.

41
graded homes
46.1
average score
E
most common grade
-26.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.