8 Willes Close, Faringdon SN7 7DU

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 109 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£3750+ yrs+3.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£3450+ yrs+2.9 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

£1,148
per year at grade C
£1,077
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £71 a year — a 0.4% annual return on £16,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 February 2008£250,000
16 January 2004£82,021

Estimated today: £418,614 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Willes Close: 34 sales since 1995 · £371,563 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Elms Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Folly View PrimaryPrimary0.5 mi
Shellingford Church of England (Voluntary Aided) SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Faringdon Community CollegeSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24)
Carterton Community CollegeSecondary7.7 miProgress 8 -0.61 · well below average (2023/24)
King Alfred'sSecondary8.1 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

13.5
crimes a month
148
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01028718, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Willes Close

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
71.3
average score
C
most common grade
+3.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.