159 New Street, Torrington EX38 8BX

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 117 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £10,695 · £5,348 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£45£85.5 yrs+0.2 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£2,700 – £700£2576.6 yrs+7.0 pts
Heating controls£450£686.6 yrs+1.8 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1397.2 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£11413.1 yrs+3.1 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£18616.1 yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£17217.4 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£6,000 – £0£14420.8 yrs+3.9 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£14,000 – £0£20134.8 yrs+5.5 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

£2,583
per year at grade E
£1,294
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £944 a year — a 8.8% annual return on £10,695.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £1,635 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 July 2020£148,000

Estimated today: £178,693 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

New Street: 313 sales since 1995 · £200,345 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great Torrington Bluecoat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Monkleigh Primary SchoolPrimary2.3 mi
Langtree Community School and Nursery UnitPrimary3.3 mi
Great Torrington SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Bideford CollegeSecondary5.3 miProgress 8 -0.24 · below average (2023/24)
The Park Community SchoolSecondary9.1 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

7
crimes a month
63
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 59% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020304, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

New Street

How this home sits against its street.

155
graded homes
61
average score
D
most common grade
-17.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.