283 Dales Road, Ipswich IP1 4LR

Semi-Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 90 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,500 · £8,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£478.5 yrs+2.0 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8032.6 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12037.4 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£13038.5 yrs+5.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10149.6 yrs+4.2 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

£1,731
per year at grade D
£1,253
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £478 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £17,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,371 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 September 2024£325,000
12 December 2002£190,000

Estimated today: £330,219 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dales Road: 207 sales since 1995 · £266,135 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Dale Hall Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Castle Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Castle Hill Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Ormiston Endeavour AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
Northgate High SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.35 · above average (2023/24)
Stoke High School - Ormiston AcademySecondary2.2 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below 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
crimes a month
209
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 81% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029973, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dales Road

How this home sits against its street.

94
graded homes
63.8
average score
D
most common grade
-2.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.