1 Albert Road, Leicester LE2 2AA

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 197 m² · Rented (Social) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £14,600 · £7,300 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3083.2 yrs+5.2 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£4264.9 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£23920.9 yrs+4.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£28522.8 yrs+4.9 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£33327.0 yrs+5.7 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£11243.9 yrs+1.9 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

£3,672
per year at grade E
£1,968
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,259 a year — a 8.6% annual return on £14,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £2,308 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 February 1998£110,000

Estimated today: £581,685 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Albert Road: 114 sales since 1995 · £166,866 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St John the Baptist CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Madani Girls' SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +1.14 · well above average (2023/24)
Madani Boys SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Crown Hills Community CollegeSecondary0.9 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.

13.2
crimes a month
132
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013710, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Albert Road

How this home sits against its street.

56
graded homes
59.5
average score
D
most common grade
-10.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.