178 Caversham Road, Reading RG1 8AZ

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 126 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£7150+ yrs+4.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£5950+ yrs+3.3 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£8350+ yrs+4.7 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

£1,625
per year at grade D
£1,412
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £71 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,419 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 January 2020£700,000
13 September 2016£610,000
16 October 2015£335,000

Estimated today: £879,903 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Caversham Road: 218 sales since 1995 · £333,064 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
E P Collier Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Thameside Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Civitas AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
River AcademySecondary0.4 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Kendrick SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +1.07 · well above average (2023/24)
Highdown School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.25 · 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.

38.5
crimes a month
424
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016355, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Caversham Road

How this home sits against its street.

157
graded homes
68
average score
C
most common grade
-1.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.