Highfield, Gill Lane, Longton, Preston PR4 4ST

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 102 m² · Owner-Occupied · Portable electric heaters assumed for most rooms

Upgrade Plan

F → C for £38,235 · £12,745 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors—£1,000 – £0£1264.0 yrs+7.9 pts
Low energy lighting—£35£75.1 yrs+0.4 pts
Double glazing—£1,000 – £1,400£5721.1 yrs+3.6 pts
Floor insulation—£4,000 – £6,000£15731.8 yrs+9.9 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating—£4,000 – £6,000£12241.0 yrs+7.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels—£5,000 – £8,000£14544.7 yrs+9.2 pts · reaches D
Wind turbine—£15,000 – £25,000£13050+ yrs+8.2 pts · reaches C

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

£2,315
per year at grade F
£1,571
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £744 a year — a 1.9% annual return on £38,235.

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

1 August 2016£210,000

Estimated today: £297,319 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gill Lane: 29 sales since 1995 · £363,607 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
New Longton All Saints CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi—
Little Hoole Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi—
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, LongtonPrimary1.3 mi—
Hutton Church of England Grammar SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
All Hallows Catholic High SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.70 · well above average (2023/24)
Academy@WordenSecondary2.4 miProgress 8 -0.25 · below 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.

4.7
crimes a month
33
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025455, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Gill Lane

How this home sits against its street.

25
graded homes
57.8
average score
D
most common grade
-33.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.