Highlands, Downside Road, Backwell, Bristol BS48 3EW

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 197 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

ED for £7,400 · £7,400 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£10010.0 yrs+4.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£3611.0 yrs+1.6 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£7513.4 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7850+ yrs+3.5 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£5,000 – £8,000£9350+ yrs+4.1 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

£1,858
per year at grade E
£1,476
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £289 a year — a 3.9% annual return on £7,400.

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

30 May 2019£600,000
26 April 2013£293,000

Estimated today: £766,877 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Downside Road: 59 sales since 1995 · £489,853 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Winford Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Backwell Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Flax Bourton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
Backwell SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.21 · above average (2023/24)
Nailsea SchoolSecondary3.7 miProgress 8 +0.26 · above average (2023/24)
Chew Valley SchoolSecondary4.0 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.

28.6
crimes a month
315
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01014854, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Downside Road

How this home sits against its street.

38
graded homes
47.7
average score
E
most common grade
-2.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.