6 Reading Road, Lower Basildon, Reading RG8 9NG

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 139 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

CB for £26,530 · £26,530 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£30£48.0 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£8511.7 yrs+3.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6650+ yrs+3.0 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£9250+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£7950+ yrs+3.6 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

£1,361
per year at grade C
£1,034
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £327 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £26,530.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £1,168 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 September 2014£499,999
27 May 2010£391,500

Estimated today: £755,130 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Reading Road: 51 sales since 1995 · £670,663 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Goring Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Streatley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Basildon C.E. Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Langtree SchoolSecondary3.1 miProgress 8 +0.65 · well above average (2023/24)
Denefield SchoolSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 +0.16 · average (2023/24)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary4.4 miProgress 8 -0.15 · 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.

Reading Road

How this home sits against its street.

32
graded homes
45.8
average score
E
most common grade
+23.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.