86 Lower End, Piddington, Bicester OX25 1QD

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 272 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FD for £12,750 · £6,375 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2214.5 yrs+3.5 pts · reaches E
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£4095.1 yrs+6.6 pts
Low energy lighting£150£1311.6 yrs+0.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£27416.4 yrs+4.4 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£29616.9 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£23021.7 yrs+3.7 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £14,000£32028.1 yrs+5.1 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond D)£3,300 – £6,500£10745.7 yrs+1.7 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

£4,601
per year at grade F
£2,729
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £1,214 a year — a 9.5% annual return on £12,750.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £3,010 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 June 2023£1,250,000
18 October 1999£420,000

Estimated today: £1,307,692 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lower End: 53 sales since 1995 · £630,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Five Acres Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Brill Church of England SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Grendon Underwood SchoolPrimary3.2 mi
Whitelands AcademySecondary4.9 miAttainment 8 46.4 · no Progress 8 published
The Cooper SchoolSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.21 · below average (2023/24)
The Bicester SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.16 · 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.

14.5
crimes a month
159
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 76% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01028500, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lower End

How this home sits against its street.

27
graded homes
48.7
average score
E
most common grade
-12.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.