The Old Barn, Upper Brailes, Banbury OX15 5AZ

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 159 m² · Boiler and radiators, LPG

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This certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.

MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20 – £50typical
Solar water heating£5,000typical
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical
Solid wall insulation£9,000typical

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type.

Running costs

£1,989
per year at grade F
£1,965
per year at grade F

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

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Castle Hill: 10 sales since 1995 · £275,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Brailes Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Shipston-on-Stour Primary SchoolPrimary2.9 mi
Sibford Gower Endowed Primary SchoolPrimary3.4 mi
Shipston High SchoolSecondary3.2 miProgress 8 -0.12 · average (2023/24)
Kineton High SchoolSecondary7.0 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)
Chipping Norton SchoolSecondary8.5 miProgress 8 +0.29 · 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.

6.4
crimes a month
58
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01031193, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Castle Hill

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
48.8
average score
E
most common grade
-21.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.