16 Precosa Road, Botley, Southampton SO30 2NX

End-Terrace flat · Built 1967-1975 · 45 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

EC for £2,020 · £1,010 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20£161.3 yrs+0.5 pts
High-retention storage heaters£800 – £1,200£7031.4 yrs+24.3 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2673.8 yrs+9.2 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

£1,610
per year at grade E
£625
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £985 a year — a 48.8% annual return on £2,020.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £896 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 August 2021£145,000
15 June 2018£138,000

Estimated today: £137,560 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Precosa Road: 89 sales since 1995 · £265,180 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Freegrounds Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Freegrounds Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Kings Copse Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Wildern SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
Deer Park SchoolSecondary1.1 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Woodlands Community CollegeSecondary2.3 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.

3.6
crimes a month
29
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 59% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022651, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Precosa Road

How this home sits against its street.

36
graded homes
66.4
average score
C
most common grade
-22.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.