4 Strangeways Road, Cambridge CB1 8PR

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 185 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,000 · £1,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£8611.7 yrs+3.3 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£70£418.7 yrs+0.1 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£6650+ yrs+2.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£7950+ yrs+3.0 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

£1,945
per year at grade D
£1,710
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £86 a year — a 8.6% annual return on £1,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,357 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 April 2017£815,000
30 July 1998£185,000

Estimated today: £912,001 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Strangeways Road: 27 sales since 1995 · £826,375 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Queen Edith Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Queen Emma Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Morley Memorial Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
St Bede's Inter-Church SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +1.02 · well above average (2023/24)
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.23 · 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.

8
crimes a month
88
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017994, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Strangeways Road

How this home sits against its street.

18
graded homes
64.3
average score
D
most common grade
+3.7
this home vs street
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