5 Beacon Way, Newark NG24 2LD

Detached bungalow · Built 1967-1975 · 85 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,610 · £9,805 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£10£51.9 yrs+0.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£9111.0 yrs+4.0 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£16812.5 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£12241.1 yrs+5.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9450+ yrs+4.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£11350+ yrs+4.9 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

£1,538
per year at grade D
£945
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £593 a year — a 3.0% annual return on £19,610.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,016 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 June 2025£320,000
19 April 2018£168,500

Estimated today: £333,278 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Beacon Way: 2 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Barnby Road Academy Primary and Nursery schoolPrimary0.7 mi
Lovers Lane Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Coddington CofE Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
The Newark AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Magnus Church of England AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.50 · below average (2023/24)
The Suthers SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 -0.20 · 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.

8.5
crimes a month
93
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01028293, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.