175 Wensley Road, Reading RG1 6DU

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 84 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4850+ yrs+5.1 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£5250+ yrs+5.6 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£4050+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,068
per year at grade C
£928
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £100 a year — a 1.1% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,151 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

26 November 2024£395,000
29 July 2005£167,000
8 September 2000£109,950

Estimated today: £408,853 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wensley Road: 172 sales since 1995 · £316,967 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary & All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
All Saints Church of England Aided Infant SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
All Saints Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
The WREN SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.02 · average (2023/24)
Kendrick SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +1.07 · 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.

12.2
crimes a month
134
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 56% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016389, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Wensley Road

How this home sits against its street.

331
graded homes
69.6
average score
C
most common grade
+1.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.