5 Sillwood Road, Brighton BN1 2LF

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 156 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £13,600 · £13,600 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1430.7 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£15628.8 yrs+4.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£18349.2 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches B
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£3,300 – £6,500£6150+ yrs+1.8 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

£1,820
per year at grade C
£1,277
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £482 a year — a 3.5% annual return on £13,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,147 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 June 2021£715,000
11 June 2004£440,000
15 July 2003£394,000
26 July 2002£230,000

Estimated today: £786,417 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Sillwood Road: 187 sales since 1995 · £401,957 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary Magdalen Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Middle Street Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.56 · well above average (2023/24)
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Dorothy Stringer SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.11 · 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.

58.5
crimes a month
644
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016955, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Sillwood Road

How this home sits against its street.

102
graded homes
64.3
average score
C
most common grade
+4.7
this home vs street
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