4 Brookside, Desborough, Kettering NN14 2UD

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 103 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £8,645 · £8,645 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1367.4 yrs+6.0 pts
Low energy lighting£45£67.6 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8431.1 yrs+3.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10647.4 yrs+4.6 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£12650+ yrs+5.5 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

£1,712
per year at grade D
£1,255
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £331 a year — a 3.8% annual return on £8,645.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,011 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 November 2019£250,000
8 July 2016£199,995
3 August 2015£190,000
3 August 2015£178,000
21 August 2001£94,950

Estimated today: £311,481 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Brookside: 13 sales since 1995 · £297,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Havelock Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Havelock Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Loatlands Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Montsaye AcademySecondary0.9 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Kingswood Secondary AcademySecondary4.4 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
Brooke Weston AcademySecondary4.7 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.

Brookside

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
67.3
average score
C
most common grade
-8.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.