Forge Cottage, Forest Road, Binfield, Bracknell RG42 4HD

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 151 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls(optional, beyond D)£400typical£1724.2 yrs+0.3 pts
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£30 – £75typical£226.4 yrs+0.0 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£5,000typical£3550+ yrs+0.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£4,500 – £9,000typical£4250+ yrs+0.9 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£9,000typical£4950+ yrs+1.0 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

£2,270
per year at grade D
£2,125
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,425 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 February 2020£785,000
6 July 2007£695,000
10 September 2004£550,000
30 November 2000£404,500
8 December 1995£242,000

Estimated today: £920,955 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forest Road: 124 sales since 1995 · £515,684 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Binfield Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
King's Academy BinfieldAll-through0.4 miProgress 8 +0.02 · average (2023/24)
King's Academy Meadow ValePrimary1.0 mi
Garth Hill CollegeSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.21 · below average (2023/24)
St Crispin's SchoolSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +0.52 · well above average (2023/24)
Ranelagh SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.59 · 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.

10.8
crimes a month
108
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01035236, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forest Road

How this home sits against its street.

69
graded homes
65.5
average score
C
most common grade
-9.5
this home vs street
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