8 Castle Road, Knighton LD7 1BA

End-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 50 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £28,275 · £9,425 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£621.6 yrs+4.4 pts
Low energy lighting£25£37.7 yrs+0.2 pts
Flue gas heat recovery£900£7212.5 yrs+5.1 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£7413.5 yrs+5.2 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£2714.9 yrs+1.9 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£6144.9 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£4550+ yrs+3.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£8050+ yrs+5.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£6850+ yrs+4.9 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

£1,268
per year at grade E
£775
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £493 a year — a 1.7% annual return on £28,275.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £765 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 March 2014£80,000
23 January 2006£85,000
23 January 2001£26,000

Estimated today: £121,566 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Castle Road: 25 sales since 1995 · £191,344 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary4.5 mi
St George's CofE Academy, ClunPrimary5.3 mi
Newcastle CofE Primary SchoolPrimary6.7 mi
Lady Hawkins' SchoolSecondary9.7 miProgress 8 -0.48 · below average (2023/24)
The Community College, Bishop's CastleSecondary10.3 miProgress 8 -0.22 · 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.

7.6
crimes a month
61
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA W01000448, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Castle Road

How this home sits against its street.

14
graded homes
54.2
average score
E
most common grade
-4.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.