2 Durham Cottages, Plymouth PL1 5HT

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 113 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £13,000 · £6,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£673.4 yrs+2.4 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£19410.8 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches C
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£10711.0 yrs+3.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£13034.6 yrs+4.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10945.8 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £14,000£15250+ yrs+5.4 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

£1,681
per year at grade D
£922
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £607 a year — a 4.7% annual return on £13,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £1,012 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 May 2023£175,000
5 January 2022£96,000

Estimated today: £193,744 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Durham Cottages: 3 sales since 1995 · £135,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Cathedral School of St MaryPrimary0.1 mi
Stuart Road Primary AcademyPrimary0.2 mi
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Devonport High School for BoysSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Millbay AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.51 · well below average (2023/24)
Stoke Damerel Community CollegeSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.19 · 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.

36.9
crimes a month
406
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015151, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.