8a Sharpley Drive, Leicester LE4 1BP

Enclosed End-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 43 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FA for £19,073 · £3,815 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£890.3 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches E
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£881.1 yrs+7.1 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£504.5 yrs+4.0 pts
High-retention storage heaters£800 – £1,200£2064.8 yrs+16.6 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting£25£55.5 yrs+0.4 pts · reaches C
Double glazing£1,000 – £1,400£3831.7 yrs+3.0 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10547.8 yrs+8.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8150+ yrs+6.5 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£9750+ yrs+7.8 pts · reaches A

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

£1,097
per year at grade F
£338
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £759 a year — a 4.0% annual return on £19,073.

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

7 July 2015£60,000
14 December 2001£29,000

Estimated today: £104,448 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Sharpley Drive: 150 sales since 1995 · £145,719 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Heatherbrook Primary AcademyPrimary0.2 mi
Beaumont Lodge Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Woolden Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
The Martin High School AnsteySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.62 · well below average (2023/24)
Babington AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.80 · well below average (2023/24)
Beaumont Leys SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

59.5
crimes a month
655
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013617, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Sharpley Drive

How this home sits against its street.

48
graded homes
62.8
average score
C
most common grade
-28.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.