First Floor Flat, 161 Evington Road, Leicester LE2 1QL

Mid-Terrace maisonette · Built before 1900 · 70 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GC for £12,300 · £3,075 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£3050.1 yrs+10.1 pts
Draughtproofing£120£3010.4 yrs+10.0 pts · reaches F
High-retention storage heaters£1,800 – £800£7041.8 yrs+23.3 pts · reaches E
Loft insulation£350£1702.1 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£38618.1 yrs+12.8 pts
Double glazing£6,500 – £500£12927.1 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C

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

£2,622
per year at grade G
£626
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,996 a year — a 16.2% annual return on £12,300.

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

12 July 2017£250,000

Estimated today: £320,205 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Evington Road: 109 sales since 1995 · £278,624 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Medway Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Evington Valley Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Uplands Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Madani Girls' SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +1.14 · well above average (2023/24)
Madani Boys SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Crown Hills Community CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.32 · 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.

14.2
crimes a month
156
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013756, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Evington Road

How this home sits against its street.

237
graded homes
59.5
average score
D
most common grade
-52.5
this home vs street
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