7 Castle Dore, Freshbrook, Swindon SN5 8PQ

Semi-Detached house · 1967-1975 · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £3,197 · £3,197 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£394.1 yrs+2.9 pts
Low energy lighting£20 – £50typical£217.3 yrs+0.1 pts
Heating controls£400typical£1723.8 yrs+1.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£2850+ yrs+2.1 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£5,000typical£3650+ yrs+2.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£4,500 – £9,000typical£4350+ yrs+3.1 pts

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

£588
per year at grade D
£423
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £87 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £3,197.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

3 July 2009£130,000

Estimated today: £268,238 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Castle Dore: 234 sales since 1995 · £218,183 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Tregoze Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Lydiard Park AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
The Deanery CofE AcademySecondary1.4 miAttainment 8 46.6 · no Progress 8 published
UTC SwindonSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -1.46 · well 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.

6
crimes a month
60
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 55% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015502, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Castle Dore

How this home sits against its street.

72
graded homes
67.3
average score
C
most common grade
-4.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.