8 Down Road, Plymouth PL7 2GN

Semi-Detached bungalow · Built 1983-1990 · 57 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FD for £12,210 · £6,105 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£700.4 yrs+4.6 pts
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£667.6 yrs+4.3 pts
High-retention storage heaters£1,800 – £800£1618.1 yrs+10.6 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£30£48.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Loft insulation£350£399.0 yrs+2.6 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£8236.6 yrs+5.4 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£6447.2 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£7650+ yrs+5.0 pts · reaches D

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

£1,482
per year at grade F
£921
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £561 a year — a 4.6% annual return on £12,210.

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

7 July 2015£150,000

Estimated today: £231,916 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Down Road: 152 sales since 1995 · £193,436 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Chaddlewood Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Yealmpstone Farm Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Plympton St Maurice Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Plympton AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.39 · below average (2023/24)
Hele's SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
Coombe Dean SchoolSecondary3.2 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.

5.8
crimes a month
64
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 52% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015111, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Down Road

How this home sits against its street.

43
graded homes
67.4
average score
C
most common grade
-46.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.