The Bield, Valley Road, Penwortham, Preston PR1 9XP

Detached house · 1930-1949 · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FD for £10,964 · £5,482 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£2400.7 yrs+6.0 pts
Heating controls£400typical£1023.9 yrs+2.6 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£124.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£2104.8 yrs+5.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£17215.1 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£26026.0 yrs+6.5 pts · reaches D

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£2,506
per year at grade F
£1,510
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £996 a year — a 9.1% annual return on £10,964.

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

22 September 2011£388,000

Estimated today: £584,943 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Valley Road: 12 sales since 1995 · £1,150,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cop Lane Church of England Primary School, PenworthamPrimary0.4 mi
Penwortham Middleforth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Stephen's CofE SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Penwortham Girls' High SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.57 · well above average (2023/24)
Penwortham Priory AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.36 · below average (2023/24)
All Hallows Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.70 · well 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.

9.2
crimes a month
92
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025408, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Valley Road

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
63.5
average score
D
most common grade
-31.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.