5 Blundells Road, Tilehurst, Reading RG30 4TR

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 112 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £21,500 · £10,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1666.0 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12938.8 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£15442.2 yrs+5.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£18050+ 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

£1,709
per year at grade D
£1,080
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £629 a year — a 2.9% annual return on £21,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,079 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 December 2000£158,000
30 August 1996£77,000

Estimated today: £500,656 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Blundells Road: 46 sales since 1995 · £372,513 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Meadow Park AcademyPrimary0.1 mi
Moorlands Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Park Lane Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
King's Academy ProspectSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.39 · below average (2023/24)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
Denefield SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.16 · 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.

35.4
crimes a month
389
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 72% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016433, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Blundells Road

How this home sits against its street.

19
graded homes
62.2
average score
D
most common grade
-2.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.