42 Austin Street, Ipswich IP2 8DF

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 89 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £16,750 · £16,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£21734.5 yrs+6.3 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£23539.4 yrs+6.8 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£20144.8 yrs+5.8 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

£1,852
per year at grade D
£1,199
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £452 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £16,750.

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

Sold prices

6 January 2022£270,000
26 August 2016£210,000
27 August 2015£85,000

Estimated today: £269,417 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Austin Street: 48 sales since 1995 · £148,286 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Halifax Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
St Helen's Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Stoke High School - Ormiston AcademySecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Chantry AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.51 · well below average (2023/24)
Copleston High SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 +0.34 · 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.

9.6
crimes a month
106
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033130, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Austin Street

How this home sits against its street.

42
graded homes
66.8
average score
C
most common grade
-9.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.