3 Thanet Road, Ipswich IP4 5LB

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 88 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,120 · £10,060 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20£53.8 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1208.3 yrs+6.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7435.3 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9350+ yrs+4.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£11150+ yrs+5.8 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

£1,428
per year at grade D
£1,025
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £403 a year — a 2.0% annual return on £20,120.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £899 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 September 2021£286,000
12 November 1999£80,000

Estimated today: £305,646 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Thanet Road: 65 sales since 1995 · £251,712 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Britannia Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.2 mi
St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, IpswichPrimary0.5 mi
Clifford Road Primary School & NurseryPrimary0.7 mi
Copleston High SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.34 · above average (2023/24)
St Alban's Catholic High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
Northgate High SchoolSecondary1.1 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.

10.5
crimes a month
115
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 76% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030004, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Thanet Road

How this home sits against its street.

42
graded homes
64
average score
C
most common grade
-3.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.