2 Beech Road, Purley on Thames, Reading RG8 8DS

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 229 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £12,395 · £6,198 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£5012.0 yrs+7.6 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£6923.0 yrs+10.4 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£3088.4 yrs+4.7 pts
Low energy lighting£195£228.9 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£46414.0 yrs+7.0 pts · reaches C

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

£4,100
per year at grade E
£2,113
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,987 a year — a 16.0% annual return on £12,395.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £2,855 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 January 2017£860,000
1 September 1999£229,000

Estimated today: £1,066,316 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Beech Road: 76 sales since 1995 · £644,016 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Long Lane Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Purley CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Downsway Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Denefield SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
King's Academy ProspectSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 -0.39 · 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.

7.2
crimes a month
72
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016316, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Beech Road

How this home sits against its street.

43
graded homes
65.9
average score
D
most common grade
-19.9
this home vs street
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