23a William Street, Reading RG1 7DE

Not Recorded flat · Built 1900-1929 · 31 m² · Rented (Private) · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

EB for £22,830 · £7,610 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£20 – £40£1300.2 yrs+5.0 pts
Draughtproofing£150 – £250£1281.6 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches D
High-retention storage heaters£400 – £800£2992.0 yrs+11.6 pts
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£15249.4 yrs+5.9 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£16450+ yrs+6.4 pts
Double glazing£4,500 – £6,000£5550+ yrs+2.1 pts · reaches B

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

£1,440
per year at grade E
£513
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £927 a year — a 4.1% annual return on £22,830.

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

30 June 2006£70,000
14 September 2001£66,000
28 May 1999£34,000

Estimated today: £109,614 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

William Street: 73 sales since 1995 · £295,945 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Civitas AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Oxford Road Community SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
E P Collier Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
River AcademySecondary0.5 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Kendrick SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +1.07 · well above average (2023/24)
The WREN SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

19.4
crimes a month
213
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016353, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

William Street

How this home sits against its street.

54
graded homes
66.8
average score
C
most common grade
-20.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.