561 Basingstoke Road, Reading, Reading RG2 0SH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 66 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £11,500 · £5,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors£2,000 – £0£4920.3 yrs+3.8 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£4621.7 yrs+3.5 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£5750+ yrs+4.4 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£6250+ yrs+4.7 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£4850+ yrs+3.7 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

£1,089
per year at grade D
£827
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £214 a year — a 1.9% annual return on £11,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £678 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 May 2021£347,500
5 January 2007£132,000
14 November 2003£130,000

Estimated today: £424,814 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Basingstoke Road: 569 sales since 1995 · £328,127 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Geoffrey Field Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Geoffrey Field Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Christ The King Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Hartland High SchoolSecondary0.3 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Reading Girls' SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
Oakbank SchoolSecondary1.4 miNot in the KS4 performance tables

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.

14.9
crimes a month
164
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016437, 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
-0.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.