8 Exwick Square, Reading RG2 8NB

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

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4350+ yrs+4.5 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£4650+ yrs+4.8 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£3650+ 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

£1,047
per year at grade C
£922
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £89 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £629 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 May 2023£385,000
29 August 2003£136,000

Estimated today: £426,309 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Exwick Square: 19 sales since 1995 · £342,600 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Christ The King Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Geoffrey Field Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Geoffrey Field Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Hartland High SchoolSecondary0.2 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Reading Girls' SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
Oakbank SchoolSecondary1.5 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.

13.5
crimes a month
148
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016368, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Exwick Square

How this home sits against its street.

19
graded homes
67.5
average score
D
most common grade
+4.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.