291 Dyke Road, Hove BN3 6PD

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 241 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £1,100 · £1,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£3060.3 yrs+3.8 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3632.8 yrs+4.5 pts · reaches B
Heating controls(optional, beyond B)£350 – £450£1323.0 yrs+1.6 pts
Cavity wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£500 – £1,500£2713.7 yrs+3.4 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£3,300 – £6,500£13137.3 yrs+1.6 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

£3,474
per year at grade C
£2,270
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £669 a year — a 60.8% annual return on £1,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £2,465 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 July 2017£1,070,000
27 September 2005£687,500
19 October 2001£450,000
8 July 1999£295,000

Estimated today: £1,316,702 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dyke Road: 227 sales since 1995 · £564,673 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Stanford Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.56 · well above average (2023/24)
Dorothy Stringer SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.11 · average (2023/24)
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

13.5
crimes a month
148
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016981, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dyke Road

How this home sits against its street.

113
graded homes
64.3
average score
C
most common grade
+9.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.