Old Leylands Barn, Berwick, Polegate BN26 6SS

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 102 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FA for £31,000 · £6,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4932.0 yrs+12.8 pts · reaches E
High-performance doors£2,000 – £0£3952.5 yrs+10.3 pts
High-retention storage heaters£3,200 – £4,800£9724.1 yrs+25.3 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£38313.1 yrs+10.0 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£40948.9 yrs+10.6 pts · reaches A

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

£4,467
per year at grade F
£1,815
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £2,652 a year — a 8.6% annual return on £31,000.

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.

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Alfriston SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Park Mead Primary SchoolPrimary3.2 mi
Firle Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3.7 mi
Willingdon Community SchoolSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Seaford Head SchoolSecondary4.4 miProgress 8 +0.47 · above average (2023/24)
Ratton SchoolSecondary5.1 miProgress 8 -0.10 · 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.

3.9
crimes a month
35
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021143, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.