79 Okus Road, Swindon SN1 4LE

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 87 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

FC for £20,560 · £6,853 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2364.2 yrs+5.7 pts
Low energy lighting£60£144.3 yrs+0.3 pts
High-retention storage heaters£2,400 – £3,600£6214.8 yrs+15.1 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£31515.9 yrs+7.7 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£24520.4 yrs+6.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£29222.3 yrs+7.1 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

£3,680
per year at grade F
£1,957
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,723 a year — a 8.4% annual return on £20,560.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £2,018 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

31 March 2017£275,500

Estimated today: £375,747 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Okus Road: 203 sales since 1995 · £431,800 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Robert Le Kyng Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
King William Street Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Lift East WichelPrimary0.6 mi
The Commonweal SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
UTC SwindonSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -1.46 · well below average (2023/24)
The Deanery CofE AcademySecondary0.9 miAttainment 8 46.6 · 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.

6.5
crimes a month
52
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 58% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01032706, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Okus Road

How this home sits against its street.

89
graded homes
65.7
average score
C
most common grade
-38.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.