Muffin Cottage, Drury Lane, Mortimer, Reading RG7 2HF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 158 m² · Owner-Occupied · Ground source heat pump, radiators, electric

Upgrade Plan

DA for £29,900 · £9,967 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£3710.9 yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9348.2 yrs+7.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7850+ yrs+6.4 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£8450+ yrs+6.9 pts

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

£2,321
per year at grade D
£2,029
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £292 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £29,900.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,534 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

17 June 2013£690,000

Estimated today: £1,140,770 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Drury Lane: 6 sales since 1995 · £1,050,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mortimer St. John's C.E. Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Mortimer St Mary's C.E. Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Silchester Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
The Willink SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
Oakbank SchoolSecondary4.7 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Theale Green SchoolSecondary4.8 miProgress 8 -0.31 · 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.

6.1
crimes a month
67
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016308, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Drury Lane

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
50.2
average score
D
most common grade
+17.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.