49 The Orchard, Locking, Locking BS24 8DZ

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 85 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £14,200 · £7,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£12816.4 yrs+6.8 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£5745.7 yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8650+ yrs+4.5 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£9350+ yrs+4.9 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£7250+ yrs+3.8 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

£1,307
per year at grade D
£872
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £363 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £14,200.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £814 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

8 October 2021£281,000
26 February 2001£89,950

Estimated today: £326,774 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Orchard: 59 sales since 1995 · £251,968 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Locking Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Parklands Educate Together PrimaryPrimary0.7 mi
Hutton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Winterstoke Hundred AcademySecondary0.8 miAttainment 8 40.1 · no Progress 8 published
Worle Community SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Hans Price AcademySecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.22 · 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.

3.9
crimes a month
31
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01014770, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Orchard

How this home sits against its street.

26
graded homes
63.3
average score
D
most common grade
-0.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.