Willacy House, Willacy Lane, Catforth, Preston PR4 0JD

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 243 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £12,350 · £12,350 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2194.6 yrs+4.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1646.1 yrs+3.0 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£18215.1 yrs+3.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£13519.3 yrs+2.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£17029.4 yrs+3.1 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£23738.0 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£20350+ yrs+3.7 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

£3,150
per year at grade D
£1,841
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £869 a year — a 7.0% annual return on £12,350.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £2,734 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 July 2015£520,000

Estimated today: £754,839 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Willacy Lane: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Catforth Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Inskip St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Treales Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Broughton High SchoolSecondary3.2 miProgress 8 +0.55 · well above average (2023/24)
Carr Hill High SchoolSecondary3.4 miAttainment 8 43.5 · no Progress 8 published
Ashton Community Science CollegeSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 -0.07 · 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.

7.1
crimes a month
64
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01034346, 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.