285 Basingstoke Road, Reading RG2 0JA

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 96 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1646.1 yrs+6.1 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£15229.7 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12739.3 yrs+4.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£17750+ yrs+6.6 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

£1,559
per year at grade D
£939
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £620 a year — a 3.2% annual return on £19,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,152 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 August 2024£365,000
24 October 2003£166,000
29 October 1999£114,000

Estimated today: £379,321 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Basingstoke Road: 569 sales since 1995 · £386,747 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Whitley Park Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
The Palmer Primary AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Christ The King Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Reading Girls' SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
Hartland High SchoolSecondary0.5 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Reading SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.89 · 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.

24.2
crimes a month
266
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 30% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033857, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Basingstoke Road

How this home sits against its street.

398
graded homes
65.8
average score
D
most common grade
-2.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.