8 Cookson Road, Leicester LE4 9WT

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1996-2002 · 58 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4150+ yrs+8.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3550+ yrs+6.8 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

£877
per year at grade C
£801
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £76 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,087 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 August 2023£232,000
7 December 2007£134,950
25 November 2005£118,500
16 January 2004£99,950
28 June 2002£76,500

Estimated today: £237,251 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cookson Road: 129 sales since 1995 · £172,185 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Sandfield Close Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Hope Hamilton CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Church Hill Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Soar Valley CollegeSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well above average (2023/24)
The Roundhill AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Rushey Mead AcademySecondary1.6 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.

20.5
crimes a month
226
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013736, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cookson Road

How this home sits against its street.

49
graded homes
67.8
average score
C
most common grade
+4.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.