Border Cottage, Knighton LD7 1NA

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 112 m² · Owner-occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GB for £32,178 · £6,436 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£2250.1 yrs+7.3 pts
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£2220.5 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches F
High-retention storage heaters£1,500 – £2,000£5183.4 yrs+16.7 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2633.8 yrs+8.5 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£55£124.8 yrs+0.4 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1975.1 yrs+6.3 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£21812.6 yrs+7.0 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£20424.5 yrs+6.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£28531.6 yrs+9.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£24447.2 yrs+7.9 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

£3,127
per year at grade G
£740
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,387 a year — a 7.4% annual return on £32,178.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

21 August 2013£200,000
17 May 2012£186,000

Estimated today: £299,549 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Reeves Lane: 3 sales since 1995 · £374,975 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 SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Leintwardine Endowed CE Primary SchoolPrimary4.3 mi
Wigmore Primary SchoolPrimary4.7 mi
Wigmore SchoolSecondary4.8 miProgress 8 -0.32 · below average (2023/24)
Lady Hawkins' SchoolSecondary9.7 miProgress 8 -0.48 · below average (2023/24)
The Community College, Bishop's CastleSecondary10.6 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.

11
crimes a month
121
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA W01000449, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Reeves Lane

How this home sits against its street.

10
graded homes
50.6
average score
E
most common grade
-43.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.