2 Bens Row, Backbarrow, Backbarrow LA12 8QL

Enclosed End-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 99 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £29,600 · £9,867 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£666.1 yrs+1.7 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1357.4 yrs+3.6 pts · reaches D
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£2508.4 yrs+6.6 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£11123.3 yrs+2.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£16826.8 yrs+4.4 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£18127.6 yrs+4.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£14135.5 yrs+3.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£19645.9 yrs+5.2 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

£2,486
per year at grade E
£1,237
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,249 a year — a 4.2% annual return on £29,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £2,667 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 November 2024£272,000
16 May 2003£138,000
20 July 2001£79,950

Estimated today: £273,025 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bens Row: 7 sales since 1995 · £272,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Leven Valley CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Penny Bridge CofE SchoolPrimary3.2 mi
Cartmel CofE Primary SchoolPrimary4.0 mi
Cartmel Priory CofE SchoolSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -0.08 · average (2023/24)
Ulverston Victoria High SchoolSecondary6.2 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
John Ruskin SchoolSecondary8.6 miProgress 8 +0.50 · 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.

8.3
crimes a month
83
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 55% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019386, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bens Row

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
47.6
average score
E
most common grade
+2.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.