55 Spenser Road, Ipswich IP1 6HT

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 105 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,500 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£5717.4 yrs+4.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£5350+ yrs+3.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4550+ yrs+3.2 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

£1,330
per year at grade C
£1,175
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £155 a year — a 1.5% annual return on £10,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,836 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 June 2024£245,000

Estimated today: £254,660 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Spenser Road: 45 sales since 1995 · £221,875 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Beeches Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Pancras Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Castle Hill Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Ormiston Endeavour AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
Claydon High SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.18 · average (2023/24)
Northgate High SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.35 · 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.

28.9
crimes a month
318
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030035, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Spenser Road

How this home sits against its street.

106
graded homes
66.2
average score
D
most common grade
+4.8
this home vs street
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