2 Orchard Lea, Carlisle CA2 6AF

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 236 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £4,725 · £4,725 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£425.4 yrs+2.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8150+ yrs+4.0 pts · reaches B

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

£2,442
per year at grade C
£2,319
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £123 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £4,725.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £3,007 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 November 2023£375,000
3 September 2018£300,000
22 February 2002£160,000

Estimated today: £407,882 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Orchard Lea: 4 sales since 1995 · £337,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Newlaithes Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Newlaithes Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Yewdale SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Richard Rose Morton AcademySecondaryunder 0.1 miProgress 8 +0.06 · average (2023/24)
Trinity SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.14 · average (2023/24)
St John Henry Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 -0.69 · 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
crimes a month
110
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019253, 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.