Old Lamb House, Long Lane, Cold Ash, Thatcham RG18 9LY

Detached house · 2016 · 147 m² · Owner-Occupied · Air source heat pump, underfloor, electric

Upgrade Plan

BA for £11,500 · £11,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4250+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£5050+ yrs+4.4 pts · reaches A

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

£958
per year at grade B
£866
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £92 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £11,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £533 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 September 2022£575,000
15 November 2017£485,000

Estimated today: £582,475 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Long Lane: 24 sales since 1995 · £647,125 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Curridge Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Hermitage Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Trinity SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.09 · average (2023/24)
Kennet SchoolSecondary3.1 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
St Bartholomew's SchoolSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 +0.37 · 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.

8
crimes a month
80
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033851, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Long Lane

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
57.6
average score
D
most common grade
+28.4
this home vs street
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