1b York Road, London E4 8QL

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 74 m² · Owner-Occupied · Portable electric heaters assumed for most rooms

Upgrade Plan

FC for £19,523 · £6,508 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£2350.1 yrs+7.9 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2743.6 yrs+9.3 pts · reaches E
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£25417.7 yrs+8.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£21323.5 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£29730.3 yrs+10.0 pts · reaches C

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

£2,616
per year at grade F
£1,343
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,273 a year — a 6.5% annual return on £19,523.

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

10 March 2025£470,000
17 September 2010£250,000

Estimated today: £494,115 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

York Road: 71 sales since 1995 · £439,633 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Salisbury Manor Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Chase Lane Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Ainslie Wood Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
South Chingford Foundation SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.79 · well below average (2023/24)
Walthamstow AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.49 · above average (2023/24)
Highams Park SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.08 · 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.

12.6
crimes a month
139
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01004454, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

York Road

How this home sits against its street.

52
graded homes
59.3
average score
D
most common grade
-32.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.