2 Simmonds Crescent, Lower Earley, Reading RG6 3WF

Detached house · Built 2003-2006 · 99 m² · Rented (private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,550 · £16,550 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£50£315.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5850+ yrs+5.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£6950+ yrs+6.4 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

£984
per year at grade C
£854
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £130 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £16,550.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £635 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 July 2016£455,000
22 September 2006£317,714

Estimated today: £557,636 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Simmonds Crescent: 35 sales since 1995 · £522,143 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Hawkedon Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Loddon Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Radstock Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Maiden Erlegh SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.64 · well above average (2023/24)
The Forest SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.12 · average (2023/24)
The Bulmershe SchoolSecondary1.9 miAttainment 8 50.7 · no Progress 8 published

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.

9.5
crimes a month
95
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016647, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Simmonds Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
74.8
average score
C
most common grade
-0.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.