8 Blake Crescent, Swindon SN3 4LR

Semi-Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 128 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £10,200 · £5,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3902.6 yrs+7.9 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£5383.9 yrs+10.9 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£24010.9 yrs+4.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£36112.5 yrs+7.3 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£30316.5 yrs+6.1 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

£3,412
per year at grade E
£1,581
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,528 a year — a 15.0% annual return on £10,200.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £4,404 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 December 2024£320,000

Estimated today: £332,443 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Blake Crescent: 61 sales since 1995 · £276,617 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Grange Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Grange Infants' SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Colebrook Infant AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
Kingsdown SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.36 · below average (2023/24)
The Dorcan AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.39 · below average (2023/24)
St Joseph's Catholic CollegeSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.37 · above 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.

7.8
crimes a month
70
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015551, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Blake Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

35
graded homes
65.6
average score
D
most common grade
-23.6
this home vs street
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