159 Spring Road, Ipswich IP4 5NQ

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1900-1929 · 36 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DB for £15,523 · £7,761 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£800.3 yrs+2.7 pts
High-retention storage heaters£800 – £1,200£1845.4 yrs+6.2 pts · reaches C
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£756.7 yrs+2.5 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£9450+ yrs+3.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£10150+ yrs+3.4 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

£1,110
per year at grade D
£576
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £534 a year — a 3.4% annual return on £15,523.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £717 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 September 2007£80,000

Estimated today: £94,124 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Spring Road: 754 sales since 1995 · £187,838 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, IpswichPrimary0.3 mi
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, IpswichPrimary0.3 mi
Clifford Road Primary School & NurseryPrimary0.4 mi
Copleston High SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.34 · above average (2023/24)
St Alban's Catholic High SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
Northgate High SchoolSecondary0.9 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.

14.4
crimes a month
144
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030002, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Spring Road

How this home sits against its street.

322
graded homes
61.3
average score
D
most common grade
+1.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.