428 Kettering Road, Northampton NN3 6QL

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £14,530 · £4,843 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£120£1540.8 yrs+5.3 pts
Hot water cylinder insulation£30 – £400£1561.4 yrs+5.4 pts
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£1823.8 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting£45£85.6 yrs+0.3 pts
Heating controls£450£666.8 yrs+2.3 pts
Flat roof insulation£1,500 – £500£1387.2 yrs+4.8 pts
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£11213.4 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£14121.2 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£16923.7 yrs+5.8 pts
Double glazing£6,500 – £500£6650+ yrs+2.3 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

£2,181
per year at grade E
£988
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,193 a year — a 8.2% annual return on £14,530.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £1,516 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 December 2018£325,000
4 December 2015£250,000

Estimated today: £391,327 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Kettering Road: 373 sales since 1995 · £348,189 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Eastfield AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Parklands Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Kingsley Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Northampton School for GirlsSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.49 · above average (2023/24)
St Thomas Becket Catholic SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.22 · below average (2023/24)
Weston Favell AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

10.7
crimes a month
107
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01027172, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Kettering Road

How this home sits against its street.

241
graded homes
59.2
average score
D
most common grade
-17.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.