1 Walker Road, Thurmaston, Leicester LE4 8LR

Semi-Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 65 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,935 · £8,968 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£220 – £250£307.7 yrs+2.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£900 – £1,500£6219.2 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£8450+ yrs+6.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£7750+ yrs+5.8 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

£1,207
per year at grade D
£953
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £254 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £17,935.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 August 2023£140,000

Estimated today: £145,851 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Walker Road: 14 sales since 1995 · £221,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Church Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Church Hill Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Sandfield Close Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
The Roundhill AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Soar Valley CollegeSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well above average (2023/24)
Rushey Mead AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.90 · well 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.

11.4
crimes a month
125
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025762, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Walker Road

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
61.7
average score
D
most common grade
+3.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.