159 Waldegrave, Basildon SS16 5EJ

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1950-1966 · 82 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,500 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£4821.0 yrs+3.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£5950+ yrs+4.6 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£6450+ yrs+4.9 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£4950+ yrs+3.8 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

£1,017
per year at grade C
£797
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £171 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £10,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £639 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 October 2025£335,000
12 June 2020£285,000
27 November 2003£149,995
11 December 2000£88,000

Estimated today: £335,000 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Waldegrave: 169 sales since 1995 · £298,857 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Kingswood Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.2 mi
Chapel Hill Primary School & NurseryPrimary0.6 mi
Lee Chapel Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Woodlands SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.26 · below average (2023/24)
De La Salle SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.20 · average (2023/24)
The Basildon Lower AcademySecondary1.5 miNot in the KS4 performance tables

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.

14.6
crimes a month
161
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01034357, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Waldegrave

How this home sits against its street.

105
graded homes
64.9
average score
D
most common grade
+6.1
this home vs street
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