164 Gosbrook Road, Caversham, Reading RG4 8BJ

Detached flat · Built 1950-1966 · 79 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

ED for £1,023 · £1,023 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£15 – £30typical£82.8 yrs+0.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£1377.3 yrs+4.5 pts · reaches D
Double glazing(optional, beyond D)£1,200 – £4,900typical£6745.8 yrs+2.2 pts

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. 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

£1,548
per year at grade E
£1,336
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £145 a year — a 14.2% annual return on £1,023.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £969 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 May 2018£245,000
30 May 2007£169,950
10 April 2000£97,000

Estimated today: £252,786 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gosbrook Road: 556 sales since 1995 · £319,105 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Thameside Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
E P Collier Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
River AcademySecondary0.8 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Kendrick SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +1.07 · well above average (2023/24)
Highdown School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.25 · above 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.

30.2
crimes a month
332
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 55% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016362, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Gosbrook Road

How this home sits against its street.

257
graded homes
64
average score
D
most common grade
-10.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.