78 Dene Road, Northwood HA6 2DF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 100 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £27,140 · £9,047 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£626.4 yrs+2.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1287.8 yrs+4.0 pts
Low energy lighting£65£78.7 yrs+0.2 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£1309.0 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£17119.9 yrs+5.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£10524.7 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£15928.4 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13337.6 yrs+4.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£18548.6 yrs+5.8 pts · reaches B
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£3,300 – £6,500£6250+ yrs+2.0 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

£2,183
per year at grade E
£1,040
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,081 a year — a 4.0% annual return on £27,140.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,373 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 June 2022£690,000
8 June 2007£391,000
24 March 1999£225,000

Estimated today: £727,975 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dene Road: 144 sales since 1995 · £1,000,116 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Frithwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Eastbury Farm Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
UTC HeathrowSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -1.61 · well below average (2023/24)
Northwood SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.76 · well above average (2023/24)
Haydon SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.19 · 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.

10
crimes a month
110
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 25% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01002475, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dene Road

How this home sits against its street.

88
graded homes
64.9
average score
D
most common grade
-17.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.