Sycamore Cottage, Leek Road, Stoke-On-Trent ST10 3JS

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 115 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler, anthracite

Upgrade Plan

EA for £54,800 · £13,700 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Biomass boiler£5,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme£5,000 – £15,000£82412.1 yrs+19.7 pts · reaches D
Shower heat recovery£600 – £1,500£4125.8 yrs+1.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £7,000£19228.6 yrs+4.6 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£24830.3 yrs+5.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£26834.5 yrs+6.4 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£22939.2 yrs+5.5 pts
Wind turbine£5,000 – £20,000£20550+ yrs+4.9 pts · reaches A

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

£3,869
per year at grade E
£1,862
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £2,007 a year — a 3.7% annual return on £54,800.

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

28 May 2014£249,950
24 September 2002£169,950

Estimated today: £422,715 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Leek Road: 67 sales since 1995 · £258,142 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Waterhouses CofE Primary AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
The Faber Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3.0 mi
Ilam Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3.1 mi
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolSecondary6.3 miProgress 8 -0.25 · below average (2023/24)
The Cheadle AcademySecondary6.6 miProgress 8 -0.68 · well below average (2023/24)
Painsley Catholic CollegeSecondary6.6 miProgress 8 +0.51 · well above 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.

6.1
crimes a month
67
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029801, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Leek Road

How this home sits against its street.

44
graded homes
42.5
average score
E
most common grade
+1.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.