24 Wicklow Drive, Leicester LE5 4RB

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 62 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,365 · £10,183 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£15£27.3 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4721.2 yrs+4.0 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£3950+ yrs+3.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£2950+ yrs+2.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3750+ yrs+3.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£5150+ yrs+4.3 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£9,000 – £14,000£4450+ yrs+3.7 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

£1,039
per year at grade D
£791
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £204 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £20,365.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £654 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 October 2017£175,000
4 November 2013£125,000

Estimated today: £256,186 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wicklow Drive: 304 sales since 1995 · £224,989 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Rowlatts Mead Primary AcademyPrimary0.2 mi
St Barnabas CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Humberstone Junior SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Crown Hills Community CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
St Paul's Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Madani Girls' SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +1.14 · 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.

12.3
crimes a month
135
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013660, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Wicklow Drive

How this home sits against its street.

140
graded homes
62.5
average score
D
most common grade
+2.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.