Blackberry Downs, Lincombe, Lee, Ilfracombe EX34 8LL

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 112 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

GC for £22,968 · £5,742 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £400£2410.9 yrs+7.4 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1341.7 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches F
Low energy lighting£35£122.8 yrs+0.4 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2823.6 yrs+8.6 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£1033.9 yrs+3.1 pts
High-performance doors£1,500 – £500£2254.4 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches E
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2104.8 yrs+6.5 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£17315.0 yrs+5.3 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£21822.9 yrs+6.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£26144.1 yrs+8.0 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

£2,917
per year at grade G
£1,058
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,859 a year — a 8.1% annual return on £22,968.

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

20 December 2013£365,000
2 October 1995£82,500

Estimated today: £544,078 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lincombe: 24 sales since 1995 · £579,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Ilfracombe Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
West Down SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
The Ilfracombe Church of England AcademySecondary1.7 miProgress 8 +0.48 · above average (2023/24)
Braunton AcademySecondary6.2 miProgress 8 -0.22 · below average (2023/24)
Pilton Community CollegeSecondary8.0 miProgress 8 -0.23 · 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.

6.5
crimes a month
52
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020117, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lincombe

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
56.2
average score
D
most common grade
-43.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.