2 Barrington Road, Leicester LE2 2RA

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 160 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£11838.3 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£12739.4 yrs+4.1 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£9950+ yrs+3.2 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

£2,208
per year at grade D
£1,865
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £118 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £1,326 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 April 2024£502,500
9 November 2015£390,000
2 July 2007£375,000

Estimated today: £513,585 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barrington Road: 24 sales since 1995 · £695,100 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
St John the Baptist CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Madani Girls' SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +1.14 · well above average (2023/24)
Madani Boys SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Crown Hills Community CollegeSecondary1.0 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.

21.1
crimes a month
232
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013712, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barrington Road

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
55.7
average score
D
most common grade
+10.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.