5 Ormsby Street, Reading RG1 7YR

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1950-1966 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £7,050 · £7,050 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£6610.5 yrs+4.2 pts
Loft insulation£350£3211.1 yrs+2.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£6248.8 yrs+3.9 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£5250+ yrs+3.3 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£14,000 – £0£7250+ yrs+4.6 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

£1,078
per year at grade C
£795
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £211 a year — a 3.0% annual return on £7,050.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £690 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

15 June 2012£220,000
26 February 2010£200,000
21 August 2003£128,000
23 February 2001£90,000

Estimated today: £406,154 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ormsby Street: 56 sales since 1995 · £320,556 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oxford Road Community SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
All Saints Church of England Aided Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
All Saints Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
River AcademySecondary0.6 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
The WREN SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

26.8
crimes a month
295
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016358, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ormsby Street

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
63.2
average score
D
most common grade
+5.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.