The Smithy, Lake, Barnstaple EX31 3HU

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 174 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FA for £43,908 · £8,782 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £400£3070.7 yrs+8.0 pts · reaches E
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£4954.2 yrs+12.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£22011.8 yrs+5.7 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£35913.9 yrs+9.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£27818.0 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£38823.2 yrs+10.1 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£29750+ yrs+7.7 pts · reaches A

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

£3,713
per year at grade F
£1,369
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £2,344 a year — a 5.3% annual return on £43,908.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £2,284 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 May 2021£535,000

Estimated today: £591,414 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lake: 44 sales since 1995 · £465,190 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Sticklepath Community Primary AcademyPrimary0.9 mi
Newport Community School Primary AcademyPrimary1.0 mi
Ashleigh CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
The Park Community SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Pilton Community CollegeSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.23 · below average (2023/24)
Braunton AcademySecondary4.8 miProgress 8 -0.22 · 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.

12.2
crimes a month
134
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020122, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lake

How this home sits against its street.

30
graded homes
51.7
average score
E
most common grade
-19.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.