1 Chestnut Close, Launton, Bicester OX26 5DE

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 100 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

EB for £6,400 · £2,133 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£2,400 – £3,600£1,5571.9 yrs+22.6 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£7904.3 yrs+11.4 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

£4,134
per year at grade E
£1,787
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,347 a year — a 36.7% annual return on £6,400.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £4,317 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 October 2021£450,000

Estimated today: £512,277 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Chestnut Close: 18 sales since 1995 · £423,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Launton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Langford Village Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Longfields Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
The Cooper SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.21 · below average (2023/24)
The Bicester SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.16 · average (2023/24)
Whitelands AcademySecondary2.2 miAttainment 8 46.4 · no Progress 8 published

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.

6.8
crimes a month
75
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01028499, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Chestnut Close

How this home sits against its street.

10
graded homes
58
average score
D
most common grade
-8.0
this home vs street
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