79 Poverest Road, Orpington BR5 2DZ

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 77 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £12,900 · £12,900 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£11230.5 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£10343.6 yrs+5.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8750+ yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£12150+ yrs+6.0 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

£1,674
per year at grade D
£1,252
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £301 a year — a 2.3% annual return on £12,900.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,076 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 April 2024£450,000
28 April 2016£339,000
31 January 2012£238,000
26 August 2003£186,000
28 September 2001£150,000
8 July 1999£107,000
26 June 1997£88,000

Estimated today: £493,675 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Poverest Road: 191 sales since 1995 · £457,733 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Poverest Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St. Mary Cray Primary AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Perry Hall Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Harris Academy OrpingtonSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +1.27 · well above average (2023/24)
Kemnal Technology CollegeSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.92 · 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.

10.5
crimes a month
105
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01000733, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Poverest Road

How this home sits against its street.

87
graded homes
60.7
average score
D
most common grade
-4.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.