5 Gents Lane, Shimpling, Shimpling IP29 4HP

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 60 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£895.6 yrs+4.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£11244.7 yrs+6.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8750+ yrs+4.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£12150+ yrs+6.5 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

£987
per year at grade D
£578
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £409 a year — a 2.1% annual return on £19,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

18 February 2021£275,000
27 October 2005£157,500
8 April 2004£135,000
26 March 1997£39,950

Estimated today: £303,197 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gents Lane: 27 sales since 1995 · £326,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, LawshallPrimary1.1 mi
Hartest Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.3 mi
Cockfield Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Ormiston Sudbury AcademySecondary6.4 miProgress 8 -0.30 · below average (2023/24)
Sybil Andrews AcademySecondary7.3 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
King Edward VI CEVC SchoolSecondary7.8 miProgress 8 -0.10 · 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.

7.5
crimes a month
30
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029881, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Gents Lane

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
57.4
average score
D
most common grade
+3.6
this home vs street
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