159 Chapel Hill, Tilehurst, Reading RG31 5DE

Detached house · Built 2012 onwards · 176 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £6,500 · £6,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£0+6.0 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

£1,140
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £769 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 July 2017£675,000
30 April 2009£190,000

Estimated today: £820,858 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Chapel Hill: 126 sales since 1995 · £450,290 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Birch Copse Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Park Lane Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Paul's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Little Heath SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
Denefield SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)
King's Academy ProspectSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.39 · below 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.

4
crimes a month
24
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016262, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Chapel Hill

How this home sits against its street.

60
graded homes
64
average score
D
most common grade
+16.0
this home vs street
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