Sunset View, Bowness-On-Solway, Wigton CA7 5BH

Detached bungalow · Built 1976-1982 · 80 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, smokeless fuel

Upgrade Plan

FB for £23,805 · £5,951 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£5£80.7 yrs+0.4 pts
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£1393.6 yrs+7.2 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£636.3 yrs+3.3 pts · reaches E
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1307.7 yrs+6.7 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£17419.5 yrs+9.0 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£16127.9 yrs+8.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13537.0 yrs+7.0 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£18847.8 yrs+9.7 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine(optional, beyond B)£15,000 – £25,000£14450+ yrs+7.4 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

£2,807
per year at grade F
£1,663
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,000 a year — a 4.2% annual return on £23,805.

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

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bowness-on-Solway Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Kirkbride Primary SchoolPrimary4.2 mi
Holm Cultram Abbey CofE Primary SchoolPrimary8.2 mi
Solway Community SchoolSecondary8.9 miProgress 8 -1.90 · well below average (2023/24)
The Nelson Thomlinson SchoolSecondary9.4 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.

4.9
crimes a month
54
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 52% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019107, 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.