53 McCarthy Way, Finchampstead, Wokingham RG40 4UA

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 78 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £11,500 · £5,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£4037.8 yrs+3.2 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£6546.5 yrs+5.1 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£5050+ yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£6050+ yrs+4.7 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

£1,038
per year at grade D
£824
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £214 a year — a 1.9% annual return on £11,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £723 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 February 2021£383,000
6 December 2016£347,500

Estimated today: £458,797 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Mccarthy Way: 261 sales since 1995 · £426,607 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Gorse Ride Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Gorse Ride Infants' SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Nine Mile Ride Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Bohunt School WokinghamSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.44 · above average (2023/24)
The Holt SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.96 · well above average (2023/24)
St Crispin's SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.52 · well 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.

4
crimes a month
16
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016638, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Mccarthy Way

How this home sits against its street.

84
graded homes
65.7
average score
D
most common grade
+2.3
this home vs street
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