79 Battle Square, Reading RG30 1BF

End-Terrace house · Built 2007-2011 · 108 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £5,045 · £5,045 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£45£313.5 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5950+ yrs+4.9 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£5,000 – £8,000£7150+ yrs+5.8 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

£924
per year at grade C
£791
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £62 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £5,045.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £645 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 November 2023£400,000
13 February 2017£379,950
18 June 2010£237,750

Estimated today: £426,446 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Battle Square: 218 sales since 1995 · £287,401 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Battle Primary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Oxford Road Community SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Wilson Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
River AcademySecondary0.5 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
The WREN SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

42.5
crimes a month
467
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016359, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Battle Square

How this home sits against its street.

118
graded homes
78.8
average score
C
most common grade
-1.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.