253 Eastern Avenue, Ilford IG4 5AT

End-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 139 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

BA for £15,800 · £15,800 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flat roof insulation£900 – £1,200£7114.8 yrs+3.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £7,000£7350+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£10150+ yrs+5.0 pts · reaches A

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

£1,394
per year at grade B
£1,149
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £245 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £15,800.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

17 August 2023£610,000

Estimated today: £657,978 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Eastern Avenue: 1,132 sales since 1995 · £403,671 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cranbrook Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Redbridge Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Gearies Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Valentines High SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.91 · well above average (2023/24)
Beal High SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.62 · well above average (2023/24)
Wanstead High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.28 · 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.

19.1
crimes a month
191
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01003646, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Eastern Avenue

How this home sits against its street.

805
graded homes
68.2
average score
C
most common grade
+12.8
this home vs street
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