162 Dover Road, Ipswich IP3 8JJ

End-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 68 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £8,580 · £4,290 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£850.4 yrs+4.5 pts
Party wall insulation£600£5411.1 yrs+2.9 pts · reaches C
Heating controls£450£3612.5 yrs+1.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£6124.6 yrs+3.3 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£9930.2 yrs+5.3 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£7739.0 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£8,000 – £0£9243.6 yrs+4.9 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

£1,182
per year at grade D
£678
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £412 a year — a 4.8% annual return on £8,580.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £746 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 May 2019£185,000
1 December 2015£160,000
26 January 2007£143,000
10 October 2001£78,000

Estimated today: £218,678 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dover Road: 262 sales since 1995 · £209,966 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Rose Hill PrimaryPrimary0.3 mi
Murrayfield Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Britannia Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.5 mi
Copleston High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.34 · above average (2023/24)
St Alban's Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
Ipswich AcademySecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.54 · well 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.

13.3
crimes a month
133
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030005, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dover Road

How this home sits against its street.

110
graded homes
59.8
average score
D
most common grade
+3.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.