1 Brook Road, Leicester LE5 2HD

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 148 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £25,750 · £12,875 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£22733.1 yrs+5.7 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£24537.7 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£21042.9 yrs+5.2 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

£2,162
per year at grade D
£1,480
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £682 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £25,750.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2026, states £1,979 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 June 2003£179,950

Estimated today: £432,324 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Brook Road: 49 sales since 1995 · £176,375 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Joseph's Catholic AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Scraptoft Valley Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Thurnby Mead Primary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Orchard Mead AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.69 · well below average (2023/24)
St Paul's Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
The City of Leicester CollegeSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.29 · 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.

24.2
crimes a month
266
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013768, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Brook Road

How this home sits against its street.

47
graded homes
64.3
average score
C
most common grade
+1.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.