Poplar Cottage, Broad Oak, Botley, Southampton SO30 2EU

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 126 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,700 · £8,850 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£900 – £1,500£9013.3 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£12150+ yrs+5.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£11250+ yrs+4.8 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

£1,609
per year at grade D
£1,286
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £323 a year — a 1.8% annual return on £17,700.

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

Sold prices

27 June 2008£260,000
24 April 1998£92,000

Estimated today: £414,267 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Broad Oak: 52 sales since 1995 · £283,577 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Freegrounds Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Freegrounds Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Botley Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Deer Park SchoolSecondary0.6 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Wildern SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
Woodlands Community CollegeSecondary2.4 miProgress 8 -0.89 · 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.

7.8
crimes a month
78
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022652, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Broad Oak

How this home sits against its street.

19
graded homes
68.4
average score
C
most common grade
-1.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.