78 Wigton Road, Carlisle CA2 7AY

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 83 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, coal

Upgrade Plan

FB for £21,793 · £5,448 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £400£1461.4 yrs+6.4 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£812.8 yrs+3.6 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£626.4 yrs+2.7 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1277.8 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£60£78.0 yrs+0.3 pts
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£48710.3 yrs+21.3 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£17119.9 yrs+7.5 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13237.8 yrs+5.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£15841.2 yrs+6.9 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

£2,064
per year at grade F
£692
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,372 a year — a 6.3% annual return on £21,793.

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

16 June 2023£141,000
29 November 2019£115,000
21 June 2019£70,000

Estimated today: £162,049 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wigton Road: 307 sales since 1995 · £145,776 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Caldew Lea SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Bede's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Trinity SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.14 · average (2023/24)
Richard Rose Morton AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.06 · average (2023/24)
Richard Rose Central AcademySecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.33 · 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.

11.4
crimes a month
125
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019207, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Wigton Road

How this home sits against its street.

145
graded homes
63.3
average score
D
most common grade
-41.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.