14 Headlands, Desborough, Kettering NN14 2QA

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 148 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, dual fuel (mineral and wood)

Upgrade Plan

DC for £17,900 · £17,900 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1198.4 yrs+5.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£439.2 yrs+2.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9350+ yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£11150+ yrs+5.1 pts · reaches C

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

£1,680
per year at grade D
£1,314
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £366 a year — a 2.0% annual return on £17,900.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

29 March 2018£375,000
16 November 2006£157,500

Estimated today: £475,575 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Headlands: 30 sales since 1995 · £334,650 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Havelock Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Havelock Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Loatlands Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Montsaye AcademySecondary1.2 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Kingswood Secondary AcademySecondary4.1 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
Brooke Weston AcademySecondary4.5 miProgress 8 +0.54 · 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.

7.3
crimes a month
73
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01027108, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Headlands

How this home sits against its street.

16
graded homes
58.3
average score
D
most common grade
-3.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.