Devon House, Morse Road, Drybrook GL17 9AH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 119 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DB for £25,500 · £12,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£33115.1 yrs+7.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£25719.5 yrs+5.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£30621.2 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£35825.1 yrs+8.0 pts · reaches B

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

£2,890
per year at grade D
£1,638
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,252 a year — a 4.9% annual return on £25,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,623 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 April 2022£350,000
8 October 2012£142,000
13 August 1999£93,500

Estimated today: £378,757 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Morse Road: 77 sales since 1995 · £314,619 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Drybrook Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Woodside Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Steam Mills Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Dene Magna and Sixth FormSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
SGS Forest High SchoolSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 -0.78 · well below average (2023/24)
Five Acres High SchoolSecondary4.7 miProgress 8 +0.77 · well 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.

3.5
crimes a month
14
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022252, to 2026-01. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Morse Road

How this home sits against its street.

30
graded homes
54.9
average score
D
most common grade
+0.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.