3 Colenso Road, Ilford IG2 7AG

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 89 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £18,500 · £18,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£5250+ yrs+4.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4450+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£6150+ yrs+5.1 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

£1,126
per year at grade C
£969
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £157 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £18,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,213 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 March 2014£262,500

Estimated today: £481,250 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Colenso Road: 66 sales since 1995 · £435,687 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Aidan's Catholic Primary AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Seven Kings SchoolAll-through0.3 miProgress 8 +1.12 · well above average (2023/24)
Ark Isaac Newton AcademyAll-through0.3 miProgress 8 +0.90 · well above average (2023/24)
The Palmer Catholic AcademySecondaryunder 0.1 miProgress 8 +0.49 · above average (2023/24)
Oaks Park High SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.63 · well above average (2023/24)
The Ursuline Academy IlfordSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.75 · 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.

15.5
crimes a month
170
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01003757, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Colenso Road

How this home sits against its street.

41
graded homes
61.6
average score
D
most common grade
+8.4
this home vs street
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