21 Illustrious Close, Chatham ME5 7RW

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1996-2002 · 60 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£3950+ yrs+8.2 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£3250+ yrs+6.8 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

£789
per year at grade C
£718
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £39 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £491 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 March 2022£230,000
26 November 2008£115,000
21 December 2006£130,500
27 February 1998£46,000

Estimated today: £244,623 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Illustrious Close: 144 sales since 1995 · £211,065 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Maundene SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Wayfield Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Greenacre SchoolSecondary0.3 miAttainment 8 29.8 · no Progress 8 published
Walderslade SchoolSecondary0.4 miAttainment 8 29.9 · no Progress 8 published
Holcombe Grammar SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.15 · 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.

8.2
crimes a month
90
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016078, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Illustrious Close

How this home sits against its street.

44
graded homes
68.5
average score
C
most common grade
+5.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.