4 Pennycroft Cottages, Upper Basildon, Reading RG8 8ND

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 208 m² · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £24,160 · £24,160 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20 – £50typical£48.4 yrs+0.1 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£7114.1 yrs+1.6 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£7450+ yrs+1.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£8850+ yrs+2.0 pts
Wind turbine£2,750 – £20,000typical£7950+ yrs+1.7 pts · reaches C

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

£2,055
per year at grade D
£1,739
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £316 a year — a 1.3% annual return on £24,160.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2009, states £1,327 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 October 2010£855,000
23 July 2004£421,651

Estimated today: £1,518,362 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Basildon C.E. Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Whitchurch Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Pangbourne Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Denefield SchoolSecondary3.2 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
Theale Green SchoolSecondary3.9 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.

5.5
crimes a month
33
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016256, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.