4 Brean Down Close, Plymouth PL3 5PY

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters, Boiler and radiators, wood logs

Upgrade Plan

EC for £6,200 · £3,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£1973.6 yrs+6.6 pts
High-retention storage heaters£3,000 – £0£3883.9 yrs+13.1 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1476.8 yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£18216.5 yrs+6.1 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£6,000 – £0£15319.6 yrs+5.2 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

£2,524
per year at grade E
£1,457
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £914 a year — a 14.7% annual return on £6,200.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,604 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 September 2020£256,000

Estimated today: £327,805 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Brean Down Close: 14 sales since 1995 · £263,667 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Hyde Park Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Hyde Park Infants' SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Compton CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Devonport High School for GirlsSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.78 · well above average (2023/24)
Eggbuckland Community CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 0.00 · average (2023/24)
Plymouth High School for GirlsSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.24 · 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.

7.2
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015101, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Brean Down Close

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
57.9
average score
D
most common grade
-18.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.