8 Ferndale Close, Tilehurst, Reading RG31 6UZ

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 228 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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This certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.

MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type.

Running costs

£1,881
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,209 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 August 2013£785,000

Estimated today: £1,343,814 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ferndale Close: 8 sales since 1995 · £911,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Westwood Farm Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Westwood Farm Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Downsway Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Denefield SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
King's Academy ProspectSecondary1.9 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.

9.3
crimes a month
102
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016384, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ferndale Close

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
65
average score
D
most common grade
+8.0
this home vs street
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